This part of the book Escape North

This part of the book Escape North! The True Story of Harriet Tubman tells about how Harriet Tubman helped other slaves escape slavery in 1851. Read the passage and then answer the questions that follow.
Escape North! By Monica Kulling
1	The night was dark. Cricket song filled the air. A woman hid outside a cabin. She whistled a song called “Go Down, Moses.” A line in the song said: “Let my people go.”
2	Inside the cabin, the slaves knew that Harriet Tubman had come to lead her people out of slavery.
3	It was 1851. Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad wasn’t a real railroad. It was the name people gave the route taking slaves north to freedom.
4	Years before, a slave had run off. He had seemed to disappear right in front of his owner’s eyes.
5	“He must have gone on an underground railroad,” said the owner.
6	The story spread. There was a way north to the free states ! There were people who would help. They would hide you in their homes. These safe houses were stations on the Underground Railroad. Runaways ran from station to station until they reached a state where slavery was against the law.
7	That Saturday night, ten slaves answered Harriet’s call to freedom. Field slaves had Sundays off, so the bossman wouldn’t know they were gone until Monday. Then he and his dogs would come after them. If they were caught, they would be beaten...maybe to death.
8	Harriet was there to make sure that didn’t happen. She kept her eyes on one star in the sky—the North Star. She moved quickly, and the runaways followed.
9	Suddenly, clouds covered the star. Harriet had to make sure she was heading in the right direction. If she didn’t, they could end up back at the plantation!
10	Harriet ran her fingers over the bark of the tree nearest her. Daddy Ben had taught her that moss grew on the north side of trees.
11	I’ll have to find, north the way my daddy taught me, she thought.
12	Harriet closed her eyes and thought back to the lessons of long ago. She thought back to when she was a girl.

Part 6 of the passage says, "Runaways ran from station to station until they reached a state where slavery was against the law." In this sentence runaways means

A. people who helped slaves.
B. escaped slaves.
C. people who did errands for other people.
D. conductors on the Underground Railroad.

R-2-2.1 (use context) KEY: B

Item Type: MC - related to passage

Alignment to GLE R-2-2.1: Students identify the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary by…
Using strategies to unlock meaning (e.g., knowledge of word structure, including common base words and suffixes or context clues)

Depth of Knowledge: Level 2 - Use context cues to identify the meaning of unfamiliar words; Make basic inferences or draw basic conclusions about information presented in text

Which word from the passage has a prefix (beginning) meaning not?

A. inside
B. conductor
C. disappear
D. nearest

R-2-2.1 (prefix knowledge) KEY: C

Item Type: MC - related to passage

Alignment to GLE R-2-2.1: Students identify the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary by…
Using strategies to unlock meaning (e.g., knowledge of word structure)

Depth of Knowledge: Level 1 - Use language structure (pre/suffix) to determine meaning of words

Which word from the passage is a compound word with one part meaning below?

A. inside
B. railroad
C. bossman
D. underground

R-2-2.1 (word structure knowledge) KEY: D

Item Type: MC - related to passage

Depth of Knowledge: Level 1 - Use language structure (pre/suffix) to determine