Harriet Tubman
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  • Question 1
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    Q. Slave owners thought Harriet Tubman was
    answer choices
    smart
    a man
    sneaky
    God
  • Question 2
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    Q. Signs that Harriet had been around were
    answer choices
    Call of a whipoorwill
    Missing slaves
    hoot owl cry
    all of the above
  • Question 3
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    Q. Harriet planned her trips on Sunday so that slaves would have a head start.  
    answer choices
    True
    False
  • Question 4
    30 seconds
    Q. The specific trip in the excerpt was different for Harriet because
    answer choices
    her brother and his wife were in it.
    it was the largest group she had ever conducted.
    It was her first trip after the passing of the Fugitive Slave Law.
    All of the above
  • Question 5
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    Q. Harriet had never been to Canada bfore this trip.
    answer choices
    True
    False
  • Question 6
    30 seconds
    Q. The slaves and slave owners called Harriet "Moses" because
    answer choices
    They thought she was a man.
    They thought she was a God-like figure.
    She was like Moses in the bible, leading the Egyptian slaves to freedom.
  • Question 7
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    Q. The secret password on the Underground Railroad was
    answer choices
    a secret knock
     the phrase, "A friend with friends"
    the song "Follow the Drinking Gourd"
  • Question 8
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    Q. At the first stop, Harriet and her fellow slaves were turned away.  How did that affect the group?
    answer choices
    It created doubt in Harriet's abilities.
    It worried Harriet that they might not survive.
    It caused some of them to want to turn back.
  • Question 9
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    Q. Harriet kept painting wondrous word pictures of what freedom would be like to dispel their fear of being caught.
    In the context of this sentence, the term     dispel means
    answer choices
    feed
    fight off
    cause something to go away
  • Question 10
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    Q. Thomas Garret was
    answer choices
    a quaker
    a slave owner
    a kind man
    a quaker and safehouse stop on the Underground Railroad
  • Question 11
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    Q. When slaves were tired on the trip and threatened to turn back, Harriet turned a gun on them because
    answer choices
    she was controlling
    they would be killed anyway
    if a runaway returned home he would turn traitor
  • Question 12
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    Q. Thomas Sims was killed because
    answer choices
    he ran a way and was returned by order of the Fugitive Slave Law
    He was caught trying to run away
    He disobeyed his mater
  • Question 13
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    Q. It is believed that Harriet stayed in Syracuse with Frederick Douglass on this trip because
    answer choices
    She wrote about it in her autobiography
    They were caught there.
    He wrote about taking in 11 fugitives in his autobiography
  • Question 14
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    Q. Harriet Tubman suffered from a seizure disorder, which meant that
    answer choices
    She could have become unconscious at any time during the trip. 
    They could have been caught
    She was a danger to herself and others
  • Question 15
    30 seconds
    Q. They made it to Canada safely and got jobs and their own homes.
    answer choices
    True 
    False
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