WorksheetsAnn Fights for Freedom
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
The inciting action of the story, from Chapter 1, is.....
Ann's grandmother passes away.
Ann's mother is extremely sad and needs help with the baby.
Master Adam is having financial problems and will need to sell some of the slaves.
Master Adam wants to take Ann to live in the main house.
Ann's Papa refuses to talk about running away because....
he knows Ann can't keep a secret.
he knows they live too far away from the North.
he knows that Mama is too sad and sick to make the journey.
he knows that it would be very dangerous, especially if they get caught.
The setting of the story at the beginning is.....
in Maryland during the month of November.
in South Carolina during the month of July.
in Georgia during the coldest winter in many years.
in Virginia during the planting months.
It is Ann's idea to runaway on the Underground Railroad.
True
False
Choose all the correct answers.
All the slaves looked forward to Saturday night because....
Master Adam would reward their hard work with a feast.
Most of the slaves would sneak away into the woods to share food.
Most of the slaves would get paid by Master Adam.
The next day was Sunday, a day the slaves didn't work in the fields.
During those times, people who got paid to capture runaway slaves and take them back to their owners, were called:
rollers
pattyrollers
police
traitors
What is the name of the man Ann's family encounters in the swamp the first day after they runaway?
Daniel
Earl
Fred
Nathan
Why do Ann and her family need to go as far away as possible from Master Adam's farm before Monday?
Ann's family needs to make it to the first safe house in order for the Underground Railroad to help them.
Monday is when the family's neighbor will report them missing to Master Adam.
The slaves go back to work on Monday and that's when Master Adam will notice they are missing.
The climax of the story is .......
when Ann's father gets caught and sent back to Master Adam's farm.
when Ann's family runs into other runaway slaves who lead them to a safe house.
when Master Adam finds the family by the Choptank River.
when a pattyroller starts to check the potato wagon where Ann and her family are hiding.
What is the biggest lesson learns on her journey to freedom?
Master Adam will never give up on finding them.
Most people will not help a runaway slave escape to the North.
Most people are good and will offer whatever help they can to a runaway slave.
The Underground Railroad is an actual train that helps slaves escape to the North.
Ann and the rest of her family, never see her father again.
True
False
After crossing the Choptank River, the 3 men take Ann and her family to .....
a safe house that is part of the Underground Railroad.
a wagon that will hide them and get them to the North.
a pattyroller who promised to pay them a lot of money.
a cabin where they can sleep and hide until night comes.
Ann's Daddy believes......
that only Black people are good.
that no one, Black or White, can be trusted.
that some of the people who will help them will be White.
that good people come in every color, size and shape.
When the 3 men who helped Ann's family cross the river get taken from the safe house, Mama wants to return to the farm because......
she is too scared to continue without Daddy.
she thinks Daddy will return to the farm.
she left her only picture of Grandma on the farm.
she thinks Master Adam will catch them.
The protagonist in the story is....
Papa
Mama
Ann
Harriet Tubman
The main problem in the story is.......
Ann's fight to get her family to the North.
Ann's fight to get Mama to be happy again.
Ann's fight to find her Daddy after he's lost.
Ann's fight to keep her family safe from pattyrollers.
Once Ann convinces Mama to continue without Daddy, they continue North and soon are running across another river because.....
Master Adam is chasing them.
they know where Daddy is.
hound dogs start chasing them.
a storm is coming that will make the water rise.
Without the help of these people, Ann and her family would not have made it to the North:
David
Nathan
Donovan
Adam
It is hard for Ann to trust Sally and Donovan because.....
they are rich.
they act suspiciously.
they don't look her in the eye.
they are white.
Once Ann's family crosses the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsylvania, they will be in the North and no longer be slaves.
True
False
