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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Senator Bird react when his wife objects to the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act?
(a) With understanding and patience.
(b) With anger.
(c) With astonishment.
(d) With pleasure.

2. Where is Mr. Butler headed when the reader meets him in the tavern?
(a) Canada.
(b) Georgia.
(c) The Haley plantation.
(d) Ohio.

3. How does Uncle Tom receive the news of the slaves on Shelby plantation being sold?
(a) He encourages Eliza to get Mrs. Shelby to help her hide.
(b) He encourages Eliza to run away and offers to care for her son until she can send for him.
(c) Uncle Tom tells Eliza that she must be mistaken and that Mr. Shelby would never do such a thing.
(d) He says he feels badly, but he would never run away becase he would never want to disappoint his master.

4. At the end of the Chapter 16, what aspect of work does Tom say he has experience with?
(a) He knows how to take care of horses.
(b) He knows how supervise a house staff.
(c) He knows how to cook.
(d) He knows how to plant crops.

5. What is Aunt Chloe's primary responsibility of the plantation?
(a) She is in charge of rotating crops.
(b) She is gardener.
(c) She is in charge of all child care.
(d) She is the head cook.

6. Who is absent from the plantation when Mr. Shelby and Mr. Haley's agreement moves into action?
(a) Mrs. Shelby.
(b) Mose, the child.
(c) Mr. Shelby.
(d) Young Master George.

7. When Phineas is in the town where the Hallidays live, what does he hear a conversation about?
(a) A slave named Tom is looking for Eliza to come to a plantation in New Orleans.
(b) Slave catchers looking for Eliza and her family.
(c) A reward for catching the runaway slaves.
(d) A warrant issued for the Quakers who are hiding slaves.

8. In the tavern, what is it that one of the Kentuckians brings to the stranger to read?
(a) The daily news paper of this town.
(b) A menu offering only Kentucky whisky and Kentucky wine.
(c) An advertisement offering a reward to find a runaway slave.
(d) A copy of the Fugitive Slave Act.

9. Who is Eva?
(a) A little white girl Tom meets on the riverboat.
(b) A slave who belongs to the riverboat captain.
(c) A female slave roughly Tom's age whom he meets on the riverboat.
(d) A little black girl Tom meets on the riverboat.

10. Who is George?
(a) Uncle Tom's son.
(b) Eliza's husband and Harry's father.
(c) Mr. Shelby.
(d) Mr. Shelby's son and heir to the plantation.

11. Who says that he/she "wouldn't give a flip" for politics?
(a) Both.
(b) Mr. Bird.
(c) Neither.
(d) Mrs. Bird.

12. Who are Lokar and Marks?
(a) Slave traders.
(b) Mr. Haley's sons.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Riverboat workers.

13. Shortly before Chapter 1 ends, what is Eliza afraid will happen?
(a) Mrs Shelby will be angry with her for not minding her own business.
(b) Mr. Haley will reveal that he saw Eliza eavesdropping.
(c) Mr. Shelby will be angry for her with playing with Harry and neglecting her work.
(d) She and Harry will be sold.

14. What happens to Lucy by the end of the Chapter 12?
(a) She is set free.
(b) She drowns.
(c) She escapes.
(d) She gets married.

15. Who does Mr. Haley get to help him find Eliza and Harry?
(a) All the slaves back at the plantation.
(b) Mr. And Mrs. Shelby.
(c) Two slave traders.
(d) Mr. Shelby and Mrs. Haley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eliza tell the Birds when she appears at their house?

2. Who is "Mr. Butler?"

3. Who is Lucy?

4. When George meets with Eliza, why does he tell her that he travels so far from the plantation on which he works?

5. Why is Eliza easily able to ask for help of a woman she meets without risking being suspected of being a runaway slave?

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