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Incidents In The Life Of a Slave Girl Chapter 1 - 4

Quiz by Estefanie Rivas Castillo

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  • Q1
    True or False. Harriet Jacobs found out that she was a slave when she was six years old.
    True
    30s
  • Q2
    What trade did her father work in?
    Carpentry
    30s
  • Q3
    What did Harriet's father have to do in order to work in his trade and handle his own affairs?
    Pay his mistress $200 per year and manage his own affairs.
    30s
  • Q4
    What was Harriet's father's strongest wish?
    To purchase his children.
    30s
  • Q5
    Mulatto
    light skin black person
    30s
  • Q6
    What kind of business did Harriet's grandmother have in the evenings after her work as a slave?
    baking
    30s
  • Q7
    What was Harriet's grandmother saving up for?
    To buy her children's freedom.
    30s
  • Q8
    What happened when her master died?
    His property was divided among his heirs.
    30s
  • Q9
    What happened to Harriet's grandmother's children as a result of their master's death?
    Her children were divided among the heirs and her youngest child, Benjamin, was sold for $720.
    30s
  • Q10
    How much money had her grandmother saved? What happened to it?
    $300. Her mistress asked to borrow it, promising to repay her, although she was not legally bound to do so.
    30s
  • Q11
    Why was Harriet raised by her grandmother?
    Her mother passed away.
    30s
  • Q12
    What did Harriet's mother's mistress promise her mother on her death bed?
    That her children would never want for anything. She kept that promise.
    30s
  • Q13
    What was Harriet's destiny after her mistress died?
    She was passed to her sister's daughter, who was 5 years old.
    30s
  • Q14
    How was Harriet and her brother, William, treated at the Flint home?
    Coldly.
    30s
  • Q15
    What was blasphemous to teach a slave?
    Teaching slaves that they were human beings was blasphemous
    30s

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