40 Holt Assessment: Literature, Reading, and Vocabulary. LITERARY FOCUS (20 points; 5 points each)

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1 SELECTION TEST Student Edition page 142 from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad Ann Petry COMPREHENSION (40 points; 4 points each) On the line provided, write the letter of the best answer to each of the following items. 1. What is Harriet Tubman trying to accomplish? A She wants to trick the slave owners. B She wants to take the slaves to Pennsylvania. C She wants to convert the slaves to the Quaker religion. D She wants to help people escape slavery. 2. Why does Harriet Tubman plan the escapes for Saturday night? F It is the only time enslaved people are in their cabins. G She wants to gain more time before she will be pursued. H Everyone is in church on Sunday. J All the men who capture runaways are out hunting on Saturdays. 3. Harriet Tubman uses the spiritual Go Down, Moses to A teach the enslaved Africans about their religion B signal her arrival to the enslaved Africans C warn the runaway slaves of approaching danger D give herself courage to go on LITERARY RESPONSE AND ANALYSIS 4. The Fugitive Slave Law that penalizes slaves and those who help them applies to F Canada and the United States G Canada H Mexico and the United States J the United States 5. All of the following statements about Harriet Tubman s journey are correct except A she is welcomed at every stop on the Underground Railroad B she travels for almost a month to complete her journey C she travels all the way to Canada with eleven slaves D she brought runaways to Thomas Garrett s home in Wilmington 6. Harriet Tubman tries to encourage the group of runaways by F threatening them with a gun G explaining the Fugitive Slave Law H telling stories about successful escapes J showing she is not afraid to sleep Harriet Tubman 39

2 7. Harriet Tubman says that she cannot allow anyone from the group to return to the plantation for fear of all the A slave owners forcing runaways to reveal the true identity of Moses B C D runaways being forced to lie to the slave owners about the whereabouts of Moses and the Underground Railroad slave owners punishing the relatives of the runaways runaways being forced to tell everything about the Underground Railroad to the slave owners 8. What does William Still of Philadelphia do? F He turns away the group because he is afraid of the new laws. G He keeps a secret record of the members of the Underground Railroad. H He accompanies the group to Canada. J He helps to write the Fugitive Slave Law. 9. When Harriet Tubman tells the group, And freedom s not bought with dust, she means that A people have to work hard to free themselves B freedom is cheap C people have to buy their freedom D even dust is valuable 10. To help tell her story and to give firsthand evidence, the author uses F an interview with Harriet Tubman G journal notes Tubman kept on the journey north H direct quotations from someone who helped the group J direct quotations from the runaways in the group LITERARY FOCUS (20 points; 5 points each) On the line provided, write the letter of the best answer to each of the following items. 11. Where and when does this story take place? A During the Civil War in the 1860s B In the South and the northeastern states in 1851 C During the civil rights movement in the 1960s D In the South in the 1870s 40 Holt Assessment: Literature, Reading, and Vocabulary

3 12. Harriet Tubman s motivation for arming herself with a gun is to F defend herself from a runaway G get farmers to give the group food and shelter H threaten a runaway who wants to turn back J prevent being captured by people who are looking for them 13. Why do you think the Quakers and others on the Underground Railroad provide shelter to the runaways? A They help for humanitarian and religious reasons. B They are Northerners who are against Northerners. C They like Harriet Tubman. D They wanted to gain political advantage in the North. 14. Which phrase best describes a character s behavior? F The reasons a character acts a certain way G A character s internal reason for doing something H What a character says and does J What a character thinks VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT (20 points; 4 points each) On the line provided, write the word that best completes each sentence. fugitives incomprehensible incentive dispel eloquence 15. Harriet spoke with about the successes of other runaways. 16. The escape from their plantations but are not yet free. 17. To the plantation owners, it is how the runaways manage to escape. 18. There is one major for a slave to run away: his or her freedom. 19. A warm place to sleep and a good meal helps to the runaways fears. CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE (20 points) 20. How do the other people in the story react and respond to Harriet Tubman? What does she do to provoke those reactions? On a separate sheet of paper, write a paragraph that explains your answer. Support your ideas with details from the story. Harriet Tubman 41

4 Answer Key Reading Skills and Strategies: Constructed Response Summarizing 11. Students responses will vary. A sample A young boy who has been traveling alone stops at the pump outside a school. He meets a teacher who understands that the boy needs some help and takes him home. At first, the boy wonders why the teacher doesn t ask him questions and then worries that the teacher may be a conjurer. Finally, the boy understands that the teacher will be a friend who is happy to listen to his story. Using Context Clues 12. (a) orneriness (b) whitewashed (c) addled (d) wilted (e) gain Predicting 13. Students responses will vary. A sample The boy may stay for a while. The teacher originally thought that the boy wanted to enroll in school and now knows that the boy wants to learn to read. Since he is so generous, he may ask the boy to stay with him and attend school. Even though the teacher says he is going to fix the boy a cot for the night, the boy s story may convince him to ask the boy to stay. In addition, the boy is very happy to have found someone kind and learned; consequently, the boy is eager to tell his story to someone who will listen. Literary Focus: Constructed Response 14. Students responses will vary. A sample (Internal conflict) The boy s internal conflict is his desire to have someone listen to his story and his fear that the teacher is a conjurer or addled in some way. He worries that the teacher doesn t want to listen to him until the teacher finally asks him to tell about himself. (External conflict) The reader can interpret that the boy s external conflicts have to do with his travels and the people and situations that he meets. When the story begins, the boy s conflict is that he has hurt his fingers and needs to find a way to take care of them. Collection 2 Collection 2 Diagnostic Test Literature, Informational Text, Vocabulary, page C 6. G 2. J 7. A 3. B 8. F 4. F 9. C 5. D 10. H from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry Selection Test, page D 6. H 2. G 7. D 3. B 8. G 4. J 9. A 5. A 10. H Literary Focus 11. B 12. H 13. A 14. H Answer Key 231

5 Answer Key Vocabulary Development 15. eloquence 16. fugitives 17. incomprehensible 18. incentive 19. dispel Constructed Response 20. Students responses will vary. A sample Tubman has a trustworthy reputation; therefore, the runaways agree to go with her. They have enough faith in her to follow her on the journey, even though they are frightened. The runaways do not always respond to her when she tells them stories, but she is able to make them laugh or sing sometimes. They doubt her promises of food and shelter along the way. When Tubman aims a gun at a runaway to prevent him from leaving, the person stays. No one reacts by trying to harm her or take her gun. When she suddenly falls asleep as she does at times, the runaways just wait, as if they are watching over her. For the most part, the conductors on the Underground Railroad also welcome and trust Tubman and fulfill their promises. They give her money for the journey, and food, shelter, and clothes for the group. After she meets the Reverend Loguen for the first time, they form a lifelong friendship. In short, because Tubman delivers on her promises, she proves herself worthy of trust and friendship. The Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850 by Flo Ota De Lange Selection Test, page A 6. G 2. H 7. D 3. C 8. F 4. H 9. A 5. A 10. H Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier Selection Test, page C 6. F 2. F 7. A 3. D 8. H 4. H 9. B 5. C 10. G Literary Focus 11. B 12. J 13. C 14. G Vocabulary Development 15. stirred 16. rent 17. staff 18. tread 19. host 232 Holt Assessment: Literature, Reading, and Vocabulary