Selection Quizzes (English)



1.	What did some of the masters find strange about the howls they periodically heard at night?
	A.	They thought there were wolves, but then they never found any.
	B.	The whippoorwills would always be dead the following morning.
	C.	The number of times the howling occurred in a row was unusual.
	D.	They realized they always occurred on clear nights.

2.	How did Harriet Tubman usually announce her arrival in the quarter?
	A.	She knocked three times on the door of a slave cabin.
	B.	She appeared in the fields during the day as one more worker.
	C.	She softly sang a forbidden spiritual outside a slave cabin.
	D.	She slipped instructions on where to meet under the door of a slave cabin in the quarter.

3.	What did Harriet need to make sure people in the group of eleven did not know?
	A.	that she had a brother and sister-in-law in the group
	B.	that the route beyond Philadelphia was not familiar to her
	C.	that she was not sure of what the laws were in Canada regarding slaves
	D.	that she was not sure what kind of border patrols she would run into

4.	After being turned away at their first house along the way, what precaution did Harriet take at the farm of the German?
	A.	She took only half the group with her when she went to the door.
	B.	She stopped in a nearby town for provisions in case he did not answer.
	C.	She had everyone go behind trees at the edge of the field instead of going to the door as a group.
	D.	She sent some of the group to the house of the Quaker so there would not be so many people.

5.	What did Harriet Tubman go on to do after bringing the eleven slaves to freedom?
	A.	She made St. Catharine’s her home but was not able to bring other slaves to freedom.
	B.	She went back to the Eastern Shore of Maryland as her home base.
	C.	She continued to bring slaves to Canada but never more than four or five at a time.
	D.	She made St. Catharine’s her home but still went back two times a year into slave territory for the next six years.

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