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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1 point
Choose the word or phrase that correctly uses the conditional mood in the underlined section in the sentence below:
Because of the Fugitive Slave Law, runaways had to be sent back to their owners if caught.
• were
• will be
• would be
• are going to be
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.
5
6
1 point
Choose the word or phrase that correctly uses the conditional mood in the underlined section in the sentence below:
Because of the Fugitive Slave Law, runaways had to be sent back to their owners if caught.
• were
• will be
• would be
• are going to be
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The correct word to use in the conditional mood in the underlined section is "would be."
So the sentence would be: "Because of the Fugitive Slave Law, runaways would be sent back to their owners if caught."
So the sentence would be: "Because of the Fugitive Slave Law, runaways would be sent back to their owners if caught."