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Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
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1
What is Harriet Tubman trying to accomplish?
taking slaves to Pennsylvania
helping people escape slavery
converting slaves to the Quaker religion
tricking slave owners
2
A warm place to sleep and a good meal helps to __ the runaways' fears.
linger
instill
evoke
dispel
3
Documents and materials produced by people who witnessed or took part in historical events.
Characterization
Author's craft
Primary source
Parallelism
4
The way a writer creates and develops characters is known as __.
characterization
syntax
parallelism
word choice
5
Vocabulary word that means messy or untidy.
linger
incomprehensible
dispel
disheveled
6
Harriet Tubman tries to encourage the group of runaways by...
telling stories about freedom
explaining the Fugitive Slave Law
threatening them with a gun
showing them she is not afraid
7
The arrangement of words and phrases in sentences used to convey meaning and tone is __.
syntax
characterization
parallelism
primary source
8
"... a voice speaking in the darkness, cajoling, urging, threatening." What does cajoling mean?
coax or urge gently
summon something
remain or stay longer
silent resentment
9
__ is a word with a meaning opposite that of another word
Antonym
Syntax
Synonym
Parallelism
10
The Fugitive Slave Law that penalizes slaves and those who help them applies to...
Canada and the Unites States
Mexico and the United States
the United States
Canada
11
Somehow she would have to __ courage into these eleven people.
instill
linger
dispel
cajole
12
Tubman uses her gun to...
threaten a fugitive who wants to turn back
kill plantation owners
get farmers to give her food and shelter
ward off spies sent by the plantation owner
13
Where and when does this story take place?
Maryland
southern/northeastern states in December 1851
during the Civil War
in the South in the early 1900s
14
People fleeing from danger are called __?
fugitives
prisoners
slaves
characters
15
To the plantation owners, it is __ how the runaways to manage to escape.
incomprehensible
cajoling
sullen
dispelling
16
Harriet spoke with __ about the success of other runaways.
incomprehensible
characterization
determination
eloquence
17
What does William Still of Philadelphia do?
He turns the group away.
He wrote the Fugitive Slave Law.
He accompanies the group to Canada.
He keeps secret records of fugitives.
18
When Tubman tells the group, "And freedom's not bought with dust," she means that...
they had to work hard to free themselves
dust is valuable
freedom is cheap
they have to buy their freedom
19
What literary technique is used in paragraph one of the story with the reference to Moses?
allusion
flashback
announcement
foreshadowing
20
The fugitives final destination is...
St. Catharines, Canada
Wilmington, Delaware
Boston, Massachusetts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
21
Why do you think Quakers and others helped the runaways on the Underground Railroad?
humanitarian and religious reasons
they like Harriet Tubman
they got paid
to gain political advantage
22
They fell silent, sullen, suspicious. Define sullen.
silent resentment
summon something
urge gently
stay longer
23
All of the statements are correct about Tubman's journey except...
they all stayed at Thomas Garrett's home in Delaware
they travel for almost a month before reaching Canada
she traveled all the way to Canada with eleven fugitives
they are welcome at every stop on the Underground Railroad
24
Tubman says that she cannot allow anyone from the group to return to the plantation for fear of
forcing fugitives to reveal the identity of Moses
runaways being forced to lie about Moses
relatives of the runaways being punished
runaways being forced to tell everything
25
Firsthand evidence Ann Petry, the author, uses to tell her story is...
quotations from participants in the Underground Railroad
illustrations of the Quaker farms
journal notes Tubman kept
an interview with Harriet Tubman
