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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. According to Chapter 45, which characters are drawn from real people aboard the schooner named Pearl?
(a) Eliza and George.
(b) Emmeline and Cassy.
(c) Aunt Chloe and Uncle Tom.
(d) Eliza and Harry.

2. Whose funeral takes place at the villa on the lake at the end of Chapter 27?
(a) Topsy's.
(b) Mrs. St. Clare's.
(c) Uncle Tom's.
(d) Eva's.

3. What state are George and Eliza in when the reader catches up with their story in Chapter 37?
(a) Ohio.
(b) New York.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) Pennsylvania.

4. Who is Dodo?
(a) A slave that belongs to a visiting child.
(b) A pet bird.
(c) A slave whom Eva meets at the lake.
(d) A pet dog.

5. When the reader is returned to the story line of George and his family in Chapter 43, where in Canada are they living?
(a) Toronto.
(b) Quebec City.
(c) Montreal.
(d) Amherstburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a heated discussion with Miss Ophelia, what does Mrs. St. Clare say she would have done to Topsy?

2. Who is the Quaker woman that George and Eliza are staying with in Chapter 37?

3. What area of his own house does Legree come to believe is haunted?

4. Who tries to convince Tom that it would be advantageous to him to burn his Bible?

5. What illness has Tom Lokar been laid up with for three weeks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What purpose does Augustine St. Clare's defense of slavery serve to the reader?

2. How do the physical descriptions of Simon Legree himself and his plantation symbolize his character?

3. What does Stowe insist that Northerners do to truly live by their Christian beliefs?

4. How does Miss Ophelia's feelings about "training" Topsy reveal what the problem is for people who attempt to control their servants or slaves with violence?

5. Why might Simon Legree "secretly dislike" Tom and why was it so important for him to get Tom to whip a person?

6. How does the language of Eliza and George's escape to freedom reflect the mood of this journey--"The blue waves of Lake Erie danced, rippling and sparkling in the sunlight. A fresh breeze blew from the shore, and the lordly boat ploughed her way right gallantly onward."

7. What is ironic about how and why Augustine St. Clare dies?

8. What do readers learn about the development of a person from the relationship between Eva and Topsy?

9. How is Tom's death the epitome of selflessness and forgiveness?

10. What does the death of Augustine emphasize about the lives and futures of their slaves?

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