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 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.
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 quarter. 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.
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Multiple Choice 1 point
Read the sentence from paragraph 16:
"The man who stood in the doorway looked at her coldly, looked with unconcealed astonishment and fear at the eleven disheveled runaways who were standing near her."
The word disheveled comes from Latin roots that mean "to disarrange the hair." Which word would best replace disheveled in the sentence and convey a similar meaning?
• Disordered
• Disturbed
• Unhappy
• Unknown
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 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.
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 quarter. 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.
4
Multiple Choice 1 point
Read the sentence from paragraph 16:
"The man who stood in the doorway looked at her coldly, looked with unconcealed astonishment and fear at the eleven disheveled runaways who were standing near her."
The word disheveled comes from Latin roots that mean "to disarrange the hair." Which word would best replace disheveled in the sentence and convey a similar meaning?
• Disordered
• Disturbed
• Unhappy
• Unknown
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The best word to replace "disheveled" in the sentence and convey a similar meaning is "disordered." This word captures the idea of being untidy or messy, particularly in relation to hair or appearance, similar to the original use of "disheveled."
So, the answer is:
• Disordered
So, the answer is:
• Disordered