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Sojourner Truth - American Abolitionist

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 6hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The first time Sojourner Truth changed her name she changed it from Isabella Baumfree to (a)   .

2.

Sojourner Truth was alive between the years (approximately)

a)

1700-1797

b)

1797-1883 

c)

1797-1878

d)

1883-1954

3.

Sojourner Truth stopped talking to (a)   because they believed in fighting for suffrage for formerly enslaved men before formerly enslaved women.

4.

T/F - Sojourner Truth was the first black woman to sue a white man and win

a)

False

b)

True

5.

When her first slave owner died, his slaves including Sojourner and her parents became legal property of (a)   .

6.

Sojourner was bought and sold _____.

a)

6 times

b)

4 times

c)

2 times

d)

5 times

7.

Sojourner Truth lived off of

a)

the money she made from the business she owned

b)

the sales she made from her books

c)

the donations collected during her speeches

d)

the money her husband and children made at work

8.

Sojourner Truth renames herself Sojourner Truth because...

(a)  

9.

On the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage a 7 foot statue of Sojourner Truth was unveiled in _____.

a)

NYC

b)

Ulster County

c)

There was no statue

d)

Washington DC

10.

Both Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth were fighting for suffrage. What was the difference in what they wanted?

(a)  

11.

Sojourner Truth's religion was _____.

a)

Protestant

b)

Hinduism

c)

Catholicism

d)

Christianity

e)

Orthodox

12.

Sojourner Truth escaped in the year____.

a)

1926

b)

1862

c)

1826

d)

1827

13.

How many of Sojourner's children were from her marriage to Thomas

a)

2

b)

4

c)

1

d)

3

e)

5

14.

In 1997, NASA named a (a)   Sojourner.

15.

Sojourner's first language was ______.

a)

English

b)

Dutch

c)

Bulgarian

d)

French

e)

German

16.

Sojourner learned how to read and write from _____.

a)

her mother

b)

her slave owner

c)

her elementary school

d)

she didn't

17.

Her last slave owner was _____.

a)

John Neely

b)

Martinus Schryver

c)

Unnamed

d)

John Dumont

e)

Issac and Maria Van Wagenen

18.

When Sojourner escaped, she escaped with _______.

a)

her son Peter

b)

her son James

c)

her daughter Diana

d)

her daughter Sophia

e)

her daughter Elizabeth

19.

Sojourner's most famous speech is titled (a)   .

20.

T/F - Sojourner said she had visions and heard voices from God.

a)

T

b)

F

21.

T/F - Sojourner played a crucial part in the underground railroad.

a)

F

b)

T

22.

T/F - Sojourner was invited to the White House to meet President Thomas Jefferson

a)

F

b)

T