Characters
Comp. Questions
Setting
True or False
Vocabulary
100
Name the main character in this story.
Who is Sweet Clara?
100
The main crop that the slaves tended to while working in the fields.
What is cotton?
100
Where the slaves hoped to find freedom.
What is Canada?
100
The star at the top of the quilt represented the South Pole.
What is False?
100
A Seamstress
What is the name of someone whose job is to sew?
200
Name the boy who is Clara's friend.
Who is Young Jack.
200
Clara was separated from this person at the beginning of the story.
Who is mama?
200
The name of the river the slaves needed to cross.
What is the Ohio River?
200
The masters didn't look for Clara on the first day she ran away because it was raining.
What is False? They said she was sick.
200
A network of secret routes and safe houses that helped slaves escape to freedom.
What is the "Underground Railroad"?
300
Name the person who helps Clara get a sewing job.
Who is Aunt Rachel?
300
For this reason, Clara's friend was very worried about her when she first came to the plantation.
What is she wasn't eating?
300
The name of the place where Clara's mother was living.
What is the North Farm?
300
Clara was 11 years old when she was taken from her mother.
What is True?
300
people were talking in the slave house...something big was going on...this word was used to describe their talking
What is a "buzzing" in the Quarters one summer evening?
400
Name the person who was getting married in the spring.
Who is Ella, the Missus' daughter.
400
For this reason the quilt that Clara sewed was very special.
What is it showed slaves the path to freedom?
400
The name of the place where Clara was required to do a lot of sewing.
What is Home Plantation?
400
On Clara's quilt the roads were marked with white cloth.
What is True?
400
field hands
What is the name given to the people who worked outside with the crops?
500
Name the person in the slave house who thought running away was crazy.
Who is Cook?
500
The story said Clara started to "squirrel away these bits of cloth". What does that mean?
What is she started saving all of the extra pieces of cloth that were left over from the jobs she did for the slave owners?
500
The place Cook's husband took the master through to go hunting.
What is the swamp?
500
Clara was excellent at sewing right from the start.
What is False?
500
paterollers
What is the name of the group of men who went looking to catch runaway slaves?
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