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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who told Harriet in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform” that he had a letter from Franklin Sanborn relating John Brown’s goal of obtaining recruits in Canada?
(a) George Ticknor Curtis.
(b) John Bowley.
(c) Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
(d) Jacob Jackson.

2. Who was John Chase’s master, according to the records in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?
(a) William Craft.
(b) Theodore Parker.
(c) John Campbell Henry.
(d) William Lloyd Garrison.

3. Where was John Brown executed?
(a) Charleston, Virginia.
(b) Macon, Georgia.
(c) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(d) Cape May, New Jersey.

4. What was the reward amount posted on the wanted poster that Harriet and the fugitives discovered in their near-escape in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?
(a) $1,750.
(b) $500.
(c) $2,600.
(d) $2,250.

5. Who passed Harriet Tubman in a wagon as she walked down the road with the chickens in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?
(a) Captain Smith.
(b) Dr. Thompson.
(c) John Campbell Henry.
(d) Charles Nalle.

6. Where did Harriet go to rest and see her parents in the spring of 1864?
(a) St. Catharines.
(b) Middletown.
(c) Wilmington.
(d) Auburn.

7. How old was John Chase described as in the records in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?
(a) 20.
(b) 29.
(c) 17.
(d) 36.

8. Where did Levi Coffin operate the busiest branch of the Underground Railroad, according to the author in Chapter 21: “With the Union Army”?
(a) Eastern Virginia.
(b) Southern Indiana.
(c) Western Alabama.
(d) Northern Ohio.

9. How many trips does the author say Harriet Tubman made into Maryland between 1851 and 1857 to bring out slaves in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?
(a) 4.
(b) 18.
(c) 11.
(d) 26.

10. Harriet Tubman returned to Dorchester County in the spring of what year in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes”?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1851.

11. To whom did Thomas Garrett send a letter in Philadelphia to let him know that Harriet and the fugitives were on their way in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?
(a) Reverend Samuel Cornish.
(b) Peter Poyas.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) J. Miller McKim.

12. As the legends of Moses spread through Dorchester and Caroline Counties, the overseers and masters would discover slaves missing, but they claimed that nothing out of the usual had occurred except for hearing the out-of-season call of what bird?
(a) Meadowlarks.
(b) Robins.
(c) Scrub jays.
(d) Whippoorwills.

13. What word in the text refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Suffrage.
(b) Gentrification.
(c) Resurrection.
(d) Abolitionism.

14. Who was the one woman in the group of fugitives that Harriet was helping North in November of 1856 in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?
(a) Mary Patterson.
(b) Catherine Kane.
(c) Ellen Craft.
(d) Eliza Nokey.

15. What friend of Harriet’s did she consider lived in Syracuse, New York, in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?
(a) William Penn.
(b) Jarm Loguen.
(c) Thomas Garrett.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Franklin B. Sanborn ask Harriet to give a lecture when he first met her in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform”?

2. When did William Still publish the book of slaves’ records in The Underground Railroad?

3. On what date did Reverend Theodore Parker write a letter to Millard Fillmore in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes”?

4. By what name did Harriet refer to Maryland in Chapter 13: “The Legend of Moses”?

5. It was the fall of what year that “Harriet Tubman began to feel uneasy about three of her brothers” that were still on the plantation in Maryland in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?

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