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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. What words convey the atmosphere described in the homes of the Quakers who the reader meets in Chapter 13?
(a) Sleek and modern.
(b) Fancy and luxorious.
(c) Warm and cozy.
(d) Cold and empty.

2. By the end of the action of the Chapter 17, what happens to Tom Lokar?
(a) He goes to the Halliday home and served a good meal.
(b) He goes to the Halliday home and spies on Eliza and George.
(c) He is wounded.
(d) He has met with Phineas, who gives him misleading information.

3. What is it that makes Eliza feel momentarily sad as she runs away?
(a) She says she feels unloyal leaving Mrs. Shelby.
(b) The Shelby home is the only one she has ever known and she is nostalgiac.
(c) She is sad to leave her work since it gave her satisfaction.
(d) She feels sad that Harry is crying that he wants to stay.

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

5. What does Mr. Haley say to Mr. Shelby that is insulting?
(a) Haley accuses Mr. Shelby of not being fair and possibly helping the slaves get away.
(b) Mr. Haley says that Shelby spoiled his slaves and now he will expect Shelby to give him cash.
(c) Haley accuses Shelby of caring too much about his wife thinks.
(d) Haley accuses Shelby of being a poor manager.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Aunt Chloe's primary responsibility of the plantation?

2. Who is Hagar?

3. Where does Tom stay while Haley goes to the slave auction?

4. Who is Eva?

5. By what means of transportation does Mr. Haley travel with Tom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Uncle Tom's loyalty to his master such a subject of harsh criticism and ridicule?

2. The author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, feels it is important for her readers to know the substance of the Fugitive Slave Act. What does she do inform the reader of this law?

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

4. Why do black people in the novel freely use the "n" word?

5. How does the reader learn that Quakers are anti-slavery?

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

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

8. What is effect of the description of life at the Hallidays?

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

10. What character says, "don't quote the Bible at me that way," and what does this quotation reveal about his character?

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