Question
Friday, 2/21: from "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground
Railroad" Selection Test
Read the selection below and choose the best answer to each question.
from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground
Railroad
The Railroad Runs to Canada
1
Multiple Choice 1 point
Which of the following quotes from the selection characterizes Tubman as severe?
1 Along the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in Dorchester County, in Caroline County, the masters kept hearing whispers about the man named Moses, who was running off slaves. At first they did not believe in his existence. The stories about him were fantastic, unbelievable. Yet they watched for him. They offered rewards for his capture.
• She had promised her passengers food and rest and warmth, and instead of that, there would be hunger and cold and more walking over the frozen ground. (paragraph 17)
2 They never saw him. Now and then they heard whispered rumors to the effect that he was in the neighborhood. The woods were searched. The roads were watched. There was never anything to indicate his whereabouts. But a few days afterward, a goodly number of slaves would be gone from the plantation. Neither the master nor the overseer had heard or seen anything unusual in the guarter. E, Sometimes one or the other would vaguely remember having heard a whippoorwill call somewhere in the woods, close by, late at night. Though it was the wrong season for whippoorwills.
She made the runaways take shelter behind trees at the edge of the fields before she knocked at the door. (paragraph 24)
O She said, "Go on with us or die." The husky low-pitched voice
was grim. (paragraph 40)
• She tried to explain to them why none of them could go back to the plantation. (paragraph 41)
Railroad" Selection Test
Read the selection below and choose the best answer to each question.
from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground
Railroad
The Railroad Runs to Canada
1
Multiple Choice 1 point
Which of the following quotes from the selection characterizes Tubman as severe?
1 Along the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in Dorchester County, in Caroline County, the masters kept hearing whispers about the man named Moses, who was running off slaves. At first they did not believe in his existence. The stories about him were fantastic, unbelievable. Yet they watched for him. They offered rewards for his capture.
• She had promised her passengers food and rest and warmth, and instead of that, there would be hunger and cold and more walking over the frozen ground. (paragraph 17)
2 They never saw him. Now and then they heard whispered rumors to the effect that he was in the neighborhood. The woods were searched. The roads were watched. There was never anything to indicate his whereabouts. But a few days afterward, a goodly number of slaves would be gone from the plantation. Neither the master nor the overseer had heard or seen anything unusual in the guarter. E, Sometimes one or the other would vaguely remember having heard a whippoorwill call somewhere in the woods, close by, late at night. Though it was the wrong season for whippoorwills.
She made the runaways take shelter behind trees at the edge of the fields before she knocked at the door. (paragraph 24)
O She said, "Go on with us or die." The husky low-pitched voice
was grim. (paragraph 40)
• She tried to explain to them why none of them could go back to the plantation. (paragraph 41)
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The quote that best characterizes Tubman as severe is:
**"She said, 'Go on with us or die.' The husky low-pitched voice was grim." (paragraph 40)**
This quote reflects a harsh and uncompromising attitude, indicating that Tubman is serious about the urgency and dangers faced by runaway slaves, reinforcing her severity in the situation.
**"She said, 'Go on with us or die.' The husky low-pitched voice was grim." (paragraph 40)**
This quote reflects a harsh and uncompromising attitude, indicating that Tubman is serious about the urgency and dangers faced by runaway slaves, reinforcing her severity in the situation.