Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman

Miss Sarah had Harriet flogged after she--

• took the muskrat from the trap
• forgot to chop firewood at the Cook plantation
• stole the crystal vase
• ran away from the Big House

When Harriet was eleven, Turner's revolt caused the South to ---

• fine plantation owners who failed to report a missing slave
• improve working conditions for field slaves
• prevent Negroes from meeting in groups larger than six members
• impose a life sentence for anyone who taught a Negro to read

Why did the overseer throw a two-pound weight a Harriet's head?

• She blocked the doorway and helped Jim to escape
• She spread the news of Cudjo's famous Appeal among the plantation slaves
• She was caught teaching reading to the slave children
• She was physically weak and unable to keep up her field help

Harriet first made plans to run away when she---

• found John Tubman with another woman
• heard that the Master had died
• had saved two hundred dollars
• saw how Miss Sarah whipped Old Rit

When Harriet met William Still, she told him of her plan to---

• send money to her family so they could buy their freedom
• return to the South and personally bring the slaves to freedom
• open up a day school for slave children
• enter the Society of Friends

Who was visiting Ezekiel Hunn's house on the morning that Harriet arrived?

• a slave trader who had come to purchase hay
• John Tubman and his brothers
• a group of patrollers who were searching houses along the railroad
• Mister Garret of Wilmington

Why was Harriet's father, Old Ben, put in jail?

• Patrollers reported that Old Ben was responsible for ths slave uprisings
• Old Ben was caught organizing a reading group among the slaves
• An escaped slave, who was caught, named him as an accomplice
• A sum of money, missing from the Big House, was planted in Ben's cabin.

After the Emancipation Proclamation, General Hunter sent Harriet to ---

• join the soldiers in the First Carolina Regiment
• speak at the Freedmen's Aid Society in Boston
• gather information about the Rebel troops in South Carolina
• meet with President Lincoln to discuss the enlistment of fugitive slaves

John Brown's plan for freeing the slaves involved --

• funneling money to slaves to purchase their own freedom
• working closely with the Quakes for peaceful abolition
• setting up refugee stations in the Allegheny mountains for fugitive slaves
• smuggling slaves dressed in factory uniforms out of the South

What happened when Harriet took the train from Washington to return home?

• Crowds of hospital workers waved flags as the train pulled away
• The conductor and three men threw her into the baggage car.
• Nelson Davis approached her and asked her to marry him.
• A sleeping seizure came upon her and passengers feared her death.