from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

According to the selection, how did Tubman make her presence known in the slave quarter?

• She left salt herring in a bandanna.

• She sang a forbidden spiritual.

• She imitated a whippoorwill.

• She imitated a hoot owl.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

According to the selection, how did Tubman respond when one of the runaways wanted to turn back?

• She told the story of Frederick Douglass.

• She threatened the runaway with a gun.

• She tied the runaway's hands together.

• She sang "Go Down, Moses."

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.9A

According to the selection, why did Tubman want to take the runaways all the way to Canada?

• The runaways had requested that Tubman take them to St. Catharines.

• The Fugitive Slave Law made it risky for runaways to stay in the U.S.

• She wanted the runaways to live among other ex-slaves in St. Catharines.

• She knew that the runaways would be able to fin work in Canada.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

As explained in the selection, what was the main thing Tubman did to encourage the fugitives?

• She talked about paid work in the North.

• She told them funny stories to pass the time.

• She found extra food for them in farmers' gardens.

• She told them about other slaves who had escaped.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

What central idea does the following statement from the selection express most clearly?

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.

• Freedom can have many meanings.

• Freedom means the ability to get rich.

• Freedom means keeping one good job.

• Freedom is best measured by material gain.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

According to the selection, why does Tubman insist that the escaping slaves must "go on or die?"

• She believed that living without freedom is a fate far worse than death.

• She feels that recaptured slaves would be forced to reveal the escape route and put those involved at great risk.

• She knows that life in the slaves' quarters is full of pain and hardship.

• She says "go on or die" to frighten the escaping slaves and keep them moving toward Canada.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.4

In the selection, what is the most important thing that the German couple gives the escaping slaves after Tubman brings them there?

• food and beverages

• a feeling of safety

• clothes and shoes

• freedom

What does the context suggest is the most likely meaning of fugitives in this passage from the selection?

The posters offering rewards for the fugitives could not be printed until Monday.

The men who made a living hunting for runaway slaves were out of reach...

• people hiding stolen goods

• people fleeing danger or capture

• people who help others to freedom

• people who chase or capture others

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is the most likely meaning of incentive in this sentence from the selection?

She had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep going.

• motivation; encouragement

• determination; grit

• wealth; profit

• comfort; ease

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What does the context suggest is the most likely meaning of indomitable in this sentence from the selection?

She gave the impression of being a short, muscular, indomitable woman who could never be defeated.

• angular

• memorable

• not easily discouraged

• not given to flights of imagination

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4