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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Harriet afraid Beverly may never do?
(a) Grow old.
(b) Get married.
(c) Take his freedom and leave the plantation.
(d) Tell Jefferson he knows who his father is.

2. In April 1820, what is Jefferson's reaction when Harriet swears she didn't look at his stuff?
(a) He finds it amusing.
(b) He invites her to look around.
(c) He calls her a liar.
(d) He is angry.

3. Why does Bankhead go over by the fireplace after he attacks Harriet?
(a) Because he's suddenly very cold.
(b) To hide.
(c) To get a poker.
(d) To stoke the fire.

4. Who is making clothes for Harriet in preparation for her freedom?
(a) Martha.
(b) Sally.
(c) Jefferson's tailor.
(d) Mammy Ursula.

5. What did Harriet want to ask God when she was a small child?
(a) Why he made animals in so many shapes, sizes, and colors.
(b) Why her siblings had died.
(c) Why she wasn't free.
(d) If there were there any black angels.

6. What will the overseer force Harriet to do if she stays at Monticello?
(a) Produce children.
(b) Have sex with him.
(c) Marry another slave.
(d) Work in the fields.

7. Who was Harriet's closest relative that was full blooded African?
(a) Her great grandmother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her great grandfather.
(d) Her grandmother.

8. What does Martha tell Harriet she acts like even if she isn't one?
(a) A slave.
(b) A black woman.
(c) A child.
(d) A white woman.

9. Living as a white woman, Harriet would have the protection of what?
(a) The law and her prospective husband.
(b) Money.
(c) God.
(d) Her social circle.

10. Who are the only people that speak about Tom now?
(a) The people on Mulberry Row.
(b) Jefferson's family.
(c) Sally and Jefferson.
(d) Harriet and Beverly.

11. In April 1820, what does Jefferson ask Harriet to give careful consideration to?
(a) Marrying Davie.
(b) Writing in her journal.
(c) Her future.
(d) Who her father is.

12. What is Mammy Ursula doing when Harriet comes to visit her in April 1820, That Same Day?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Telling the children a story.
(c) Eating breakfast.
(d) Sweeping her cabin.

13. Who goes to collect Sally's boys at the beginning of the book when they are playing more than they are working?
(a) Burwell.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Sally.
(d) Jefferson.

14. Who or what does Harriet feel she will be turning her back on by following Randolph's plan for her freedom?
(a) Monticello.
(b) Her African heritage.
(c) Thad.
(d) Jefferson.

15. Where does Jefferson wait to meet Harriet in The Third Week of May 1820?
(a) Mammy Ursula's cabin.
(b) In the parlor.
(c) Under the seven day clock.
(d) In the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bankhead looking for when Harriet comes across him in the house?

2. What does Harriet compare the secret room to?

3. How does Martha feel about the assignment her father gives her?

4. What does Harriet realize in June 1820 that she cannot be on her own?

5. What event could create a difficult future for Harriet, according to Randolph in April 1820?

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