Venture Smith
Questions
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1. Venture Smith entered life as a ______.
A. lumberjack
B. slave
C. landowner
D. prince
A
2. Master is another name for ______.
A. Owner
B. Employer
C. Mister
D. Freedom
D
3. Which word best describes Venture Smith?
A. feeble
B. reckless
C. immature
D. determined
4. How could a slave earn money?
By working for someone else after he did his slave work
5. How many years was it until Venture Smith had bought freedom for everyone in his family?
Ten years
Harriet Tubman
Questions
1. Why did the author say that Harriet Tubman was brave?
Answers will vary but should include some version of the following: She escaped from slavery. She
started a new life in the North. She returned to the South on the Underground Railroad and helped to
free more than three hundred slaves.
B
2. What can the reader infer after reading this passage?
A. Everyone in the South thought that slavery was wrong.
B. Slaves traveled at night because it was safer. It was easier to hide in the dark and sneak
from station to station.
C. Freeing runaway slaves was easy.
D. Harriet Tubman hid during the day so that she would not get sunburned.
D
3. Which of the following statements from the above passage is a simile?
A. Each stop was called a station.
B. This was known as the Underground Railroad.
C. Harriet Tubman was a hero!
D. She would sneak along like a sly fox and follow the North Star.
D
4. Choose the best title:
A. Only One Slave Ran Away
B. The Underground Railroad: Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
C. Ready, Set, Runaway
D. Helpful Harriet the Hero!
Answer Key
Thursday, February 2
Routes of Escape on the Underground Railroad
Answer Key
Thursday, February 2
A
1. What does the dark gray represent on the map?
A. Slave Holding States
B. Major Routes of Escape
C. Free States
A
2. One of the routes of escape went through which city?
A. Philadelphia
B. Madison
C. Springfield
A
3. About how many miles did slaves have to travel on the route from Columbia to Montpelier?
A. 900 miles
B. 500 miles
C. 100 miles
B
4. Which star would slaves most likely have followed to find their way to freedom?
A. Orion
B. North Star
C. Polaris
5. The routes of escape in water left from which three cities?
Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington
6. Why do most of the routes in the Underground Railroad point to the north?
The states in the north were free states.
7. How did slaves travel along the Underground Railroad?
on routes by land, water, traveling by foot
8. You are an escaped slave on the Underground Railroad. You have now learned to read and write. What
dangers did you face on the journey? Which route did you take and through which cities did you travel?
How did you know to travel north? Write a journal entry about your journey to freedom traveling the
Underground Railroad.
9. Today we live in a free country. You are able to do things that slaves did not have the luxury of
experiencing. What are some freedoms that people take advantage of today?
10. Slaves traveled to the northern states for their freedom. Why did many of the slaves continue to travel into
Canada once they reached the northern states? Why was it not safe to stay in the states in the north even
though they were free states?
The Godfather of Soul
Questions
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1. What is the main idea of this story?
A. James Brown died in 2006.
B. James Brown was born into a poor family.
C. James Brown spent time in jail.
D. James Brown was a great musician.
C
2. Which of these is an opinion from the story?
A. James Brown dropped out of school in seventh grade.
B. James Brown was born in 1933.
C. James Brown became one of the greatest performers in American history.
D. James Brown's first number-one rhythm and blues hit was "Please, Please, Please".
D
3. Where was James Brown born?
A. Oregon
B. Washington
C. Florida
D. South Carolina
4. Bobby Byrd and another singer named ______ were big influences on James Brown's music.
Little Richard
5. How is Little Richard's music described in the story?
Fast and energetic
C
6. James Brown is sometimes called the ______.
A. Godfather of Godfathers
B. Original One
C. Godfather of Soul
D. Father of the Blues
C
7. When did James Brown die?
A. 1950
B. 1985
C. 2006
D. 2011
D
8. James Brown is very well known for what kind of music?
A. grunge
B. heavy metal
C. rock and roll
D. funk and soul
Madam C.J. Walker
Questions
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1. Why did Madam C. J. Walker make a hair grower?
A. to get rich
B. to help others
C. to become famous
D. to make her hair grow back
A
2. Why did Madam C. J. Walker start selling her hair care products?
A. because they worked and would help others
B. because she wanted to become rich
C. because she wanted to become famous
D. all of the answers are correct
A
3. How were the hair care products sold?
A. by taking them door-to-door
B. by putting ads on the Internet
C. by calling buyers on the phone
D. by placing them in stores
4. Madam C. J. Walker was the first black woman in America to become a self-made ______.
millionaire