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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harriet realize in June 1820 that she cannot be on her own?
(a) A school teacher.
(b) Safe.
(c) Educated.
(d) A mother.

2. What are Sally and Harriet doing in The Third Week of May 1820 when Sally tells Harriet that Jefferson wants to see her?
(a) Mending clothing.
(b) Shelling peas.
(c) Peeling vegetables.
(d) Overseeing the bleaching of the sheets.

3. What does Bankhead try to force Harriet to do?
(a) Marry him.
(b) Ask Jefferson to sell her to Bankhead.
(c) Run away.
(d) Kiss him.

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

5. Why does Martha complain about her father?
(a) He is cruel to her.
(b) She wishes he would treat the slaves better.
(c) She doesn't like the way Jefferson treats the Hemings.
(d) He won't let her marry.

6. In April 1820, what does Harriet say happened to her brother, Tom?
(a) He became a school teacher.
(b) Nothing, he is still living on the plantation.
(c) He died.
(d) He ran away.

7. When Harriet was a small child, what did she ask her mother to ask God to do if he came while she was out?
(a) Wait.
(b) Bless her family.
(c) Make her free.
(d) Give her a puppy.

8. Whose offer to take the tea tray to Jefferson in December 1819 does Harriet refuse?
(a) Mammy Ursula.
(b) Burwell.
(c) Eston.
(d) Beverly.

9. Who does Bankhead threaten to kill?
(a) Thruston.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) Randolph.

10. According to Randolph, what would it be like for Harriet to live as a free black woman?
(a) Dull.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Safe.
(d) Exciting.

11. What does Jefferson make Harriet promise not to do In The Third Week of May 1820?
(a) Marry a white man.
(b) Tell the police about Bankhead.
(c) Run away like Tom.
(d) Argue with Bankhead.

12. In April 1820, That Same Day, what does Mammy Ursula ask Harriet to have Beverly do?
(a) Get married to a slave and remain on the plantation.
(b) Run away.
(c) Confront Jefferson.
(d) Come and see her.

13. Harriet is the _______ living child of Sally.
(a) First.
(b) Fifth.
(c) Seventh.
(d) Third.

14. Where was Sally when she was offered freedom?
(a) Germany.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Monticello.
(d) France.

15. What does Randolph say he should have done to Bankhead long ago?
(a) Killed him.
(b) Given him brandy.
(c) Asked him to dinner.
(d) Banished him from Monticello.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Middle of May 1820, why do Charles Bankhead, William Thornton, Benjamin Latrobe, and Thomas Mann Randolph come to Monticello?

2. Who discovers Harriet in the secret room?

3. Who are the only people that speak about Tom now?

4. Though he wants to marry Harriet, what would Thruston rather see her do?

5. What does Randolph tell Harriet she will be a fool if she does?

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