"Harriet Tubman: Guide to Freedom" was written in the
A. first person
B. second person
C. third person
D. fourth person
What is third person
100
How did Harriet announce her presence to slaves?
What is singing a spiritual
100
The name Moses is actually?
A. Frederick Douglas
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. an unknown slave
D. Harriet Tubman
What is Harriet Tubman
100
What was Harriet Tubman's nickname?
What is Moses
200
Which word is not spelled correctly?
A. insentive
B. recent
C. decent
D. acid
What is incentive
200
What season was it from the conditions described along the escape route?
What is fall or winter
200
The name Underground Railroad was named this because?
What is the slaves traveled secretly from stop to stop as if on a secret railroad
200
A likely purpose in reading about Harriet Tubman would be?
A. learn about origin of African American spirituals
B. to find out about life on the Underground Railroad
C. to learn about African American influences in the arts
What is to find out about life on the Underground Railroad
200
What is Tubman's response when one of the runaways says, "Let me go back?"
What is she threatens them with a gun
300
A character full of subterfuge would be very?
A. sneaky
B. careful
C. kindhearted
D. flattering
What is sneaky
300
The runaways final destination is where?
What is Canada
300
What phrase best describes conditions on the journey north?
A. just as expected
B. much harder then expected
C. easier than expected
D. mostly friendly
What is much harder than expected
300
Why does Harriet keep telling stories full of hope?
What is to prevent them from being discouraged
300
Which of the following best states the most likely purpose this selection serves for a reader?
A. understanding about the life on southern plantation
B. learning about climatic changes along the east coast
C. understanding the nature and importance of human freedom
What is understanding the nature and importance of human freedom
400
The refugees of a war are the people who...
A. fight
B. organize antiwar protests
C. die
D. leave their homelands
What is leave their homelands
400
What evidence is there that the 11 runaways and Tubman stayed at the home of Frederick Douglass in Rodchester, New York?
What is it was in a passage from Frederick Douglass's autobiography
400
What chief danger of allowing a runaway to return to the plantation?
What is The runaway may report all the details of the Underground Railroad to the slave owners
400
What is the meaning of this passage?
She discovered that freedom meant more than the right to change jobs at will, more than the right to keep the money that one earned.
What is Freedom menas more than an improvement in material conditions
400
Which words in the following sentence signal that it is written in the third person?
She now had a definite crystallized purpose, and in carrying it out, her life fell into a pattern which remained unchanged for the next six years.
A. she, her, which
B. she only
C. she and her
What is she and her
500
Which of the following words is closest in meaning to fastidious?
A. dishonest
B. religious
C. quick
D. refined
What is refind
500
Name 5 characteristics of Harriet Tubman's character that we have discussed.
What is Brave, hero, selfless, strong, determined
500
What were 3 places that slaves went to after escaping?
What is Canada, northeastern states (Ohio), and as far west as Kansas and Nebraska. Some went to Mexico and Florida
500
Why did Tubman make this trip several times, even though it was dangerous?
What is Tubman was a woman of strong convictions. She was determined to help other slaves escape to freedom, regardless of the risk.
500
Explain how the Underground Railroad came to an end.
What is when President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in 1863.