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Uncle Tom's Cabin Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mrs. Shelby feel about the people who are in charge of the search party?
(a) She knows their work and is worried they will bring Eliza and her son back and they will be sold.
(b) She is confident that her husband will make things right.
(c) She wants them to delay and not actually find Eliza and her son.
(d) She is so sad that she cannot even discuss this matter.

2. When Eliza is describe as a "petted and indulged favorite," what does this mean?
(a) Eliza was ignored.
(b) Eliza was treated like a pet.
(c) Eliza was spoiled rotten.
(d) Eliza was treated gently and given privileges.

3. Where is the boat bound for that Tom boards with Mr. Haley?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Natchez.
(d) New Orleans.

4. Who is Phineas Fletcher?
(a) A slave catcher.
(b) A slave who wants to join Eliza and George on their journey north.
(c) A white man who supervises the slaves on the Halliday plantation.
(d) A friend of the Hallidays and a fellow Quaker.

5. In what state does Senator Bird live?
(a) Georgia.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Aunt Chloe?

2. Who is Harry?

3. When George and Eliza are reunited, what is Eliza trying to convince George of?

4. When Phineas is in the town where the Hallidays live, what does he hear a conversation about?

5. Who is the character "Mas'r George" who is teaching Uncle Tom how to write?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare or contrast Mr. Shelby's and Mr. Haley's opinions on how to treat slaves should be treated.

2. What is it that offers Mrs. Shelby a moment of worry, then relief at the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. Why does the author write that "Sam was in wonderful spirits," when each of his possible sightings of Eliza turn out to not be her?

4. How does Harry's tolerance for being a slave compare or contrast with Eliza's?

5. What is unusual about Young Master Shelby teaching Tom how to write?

6. What is the author's intent by contrasting Mr. Haley's sole interest in thinking of slaves in terms of their physical strength and how he will be able to resell them and Tom's continued pondering on the Bible and a "pitying Jesus?"

7. What is the author's purpose in having Sam tell the story of Eliza's escape and Mr. Haley's failed attempts to catch her?

8. What are two good reasons that "The Mother's Struggle" is an appropriate title for Chapter 7?

9. How are Miss Ophelia's views of blacks more complicated than the racial views of other whites we have met so far?

10. How does the reader know that Mr. Shelby regards his wife's happiness as important?

(see the answer keys)

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