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Key to Exercises Unit 2, Book 3 New College English Integrated Course 1.Why did Barbara Carter speak proudly of her great-great-grandfather? Because she thought her great-great-grandfather was a heroic civil-rights fighter and never gave up struggling for freedom. 2.?Why did the author travel to Henson’s last home? Because this is a place where many escaped slaves taking the Underground Railroad were finally saved by Henson. 3. What was the Underground Railroad? Who forged it? The Underground Railroad was a secret web of escape routes and safe houses through which slaves in large numbers, with the help of lots of courageous people, fled to the North and obtained freedom. Courageious men and women forged it. 4. Why did the author want to tell the readers the stories of the heroes of the Underground Railroad? The author wanted to help the Americans remember those heroes. 5. How did John Parker win his freedom?? ? He saved enough money by working in iron molding on the side to buy his freedom. 6. Why did some people try to capture John Parker? Because he helped the slaves escape. 7.Why did Levi Coffin, a white man, help black slaves to freedom? Because he was driven by religious conviction. 8.? What risks did Coffin run while helping slaves? Coffin received frequent death threats and warnings that his stor e and home would be burned. 9.What difficulties did the slaves have in traveling the Underground Railroad to freedom? They had to travel hundreds of miles through unknown country with no road signs and few maps, usually under cover of night. 10.? Why did many slaves go to Canada? Because slavery had been abolished there in 1833, and Canadian authorities encouraged the runaways to settle their vast virgin land. 11.Why did Henson decide to escape? Because her heard alarming news: the new master was planning to sell him for plantation work in the Deep South. The slaves would be separated forever from his family. What help did the Hensons receive on the way to