Harriet Tubman:Guide to Freedom

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What evidence is there that the eleven runaways and Tubman stayed at the home of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York?

a passage in Douglass´s autobiography

How did Harriet Tubman announce her presence to slaves?

by singing a spiritual

Which phrase best describes conditions on the journey north?

much harder than expected

From the conditions described along the escape route, the season

seems to be fall or winter

Which words in the following sentence signal that it is written in third person? She now had a definite crystallized purpose, and in carrying out, her life fell into a pattern which remained unchanged for the next six years

she and her

What is Tubman´s response when one of the runaways says, ´Let me go back´

she threatens him with a gun

What is the chief danger of allowing a runaway to return to the plantation?

the runaway might report all the details of the Underground Railroad to the slave owners

The Underground Railroad was so named because

the slaves traveled secretly from stop to stop as if on a secret railroad

¨Harriet Tubman:Guide to Freedom¨ is written in

third person

A likely purpose in reading the selection on Harriet Tubman would be

to find out about life on the Underground Railroad

Why does Tubman keep telling the fugitives stories full of hope?

to prevent them from becoming discouraged

Which of the following best states the most likely purpose this selection serves for a reader?

understanding the nature and importance of human freedom

The runaway´s final destination is

Canada

What is the meaning of this passage? 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 means more than an improvement in material conditions

The man named Moses is actually

Harriet Tubman

Among the slaves, Harriet Tubman was known as

Moses


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