Lovie Lends a Helping Hand- Achieve 3000

According to the Article, what happened after Lovie's grandmother posted an image of the child on social media?

• Lovie's grandmother took her to the Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center to see and touch a mural there.

• Attendance at the Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center tripled and also increased at Dorchester County's visitor center.

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What is this Article mainly about?

• Why Harriet Tubman took enormous risks as a "conductor" of the Underground Railroad to assist about 70 slaves to get out of the South

• How the photo of a 3-year-old child reaching out to touch the hand of Harriet Tubman in a realistic mural went viral and renewed interest in Tubman

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Which is the closest synonym for the word spontaneous?

• unprompted

• repetitive

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Look at the events below. According to the Article, which of these must have happened second?

• When Lovie reached out her hand to meet Harriet Tubman's hand, Lovie's grandmother snapped a picture of her granddaughter.

• The number of guests visiting the Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center in Cambridge, Maryland, tripled.

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Suppose Rafael wants to find out about the Underground Railroad. He would find most of his information __________.

• in a book titled Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

• on a website about the Transcontinental Railroad of 1869

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Look at this passage from the Article:The image is striking. Tubman's right foot is planted on the base of an unfinished brick wall. Her left hand holds the side of the wall for support. And her right hand reaches out, seemingly through time and space. It's as if she's poised to help a runaway slave to a wooden rowboat moored in the Maryland marshlands.

In this passage, the word poise means __________.

• to be ready or prepared to do something

• to show impatience

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Which information is not in the Article?

• Why Lovie's grandmother felt it was necessary to explain the history of slavery to Lovie

• Who directly benefited from Harriet Tubman's dangerous work in the years leading up to the American Civil War

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What is one inference that the reader can make from the Article?

• Lovie's grandmother wants to teach Lovie about important but often overlooked events in American history.

• Artist Michael Rosato did not charge the Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center for the painting of the mural.

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