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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. Why is the man who helps Eliza when she reaches the other side of the river so willing to help her?
(a) He does not realize that she is black.
(b) He recognizes her as an old friend.
(c) His conscience makes him help her.
(d) He thinks she is pretty.

2. What does Senator Bird give someone to help support Eliza before he and she parted?
(a) A hundred-dollar bill.
(b) A ten-dollar bill.
(c) A twenty-dollar bill.
(d) A fifty-dollar bill.

3. In the chapter titled "The Property is Carried Off" what is the "property" that is referred to here?
(a) Uncle Tom.
(b) Eliza.
(c) A railroad car.
(d) Harry.

4. Who apparently knows nothing of Mr. Shelby's debt?
(a) Mr. Shelby, himself.
(b) Eliza.
(c) Mr. Haley.
(d) Mrs. Shelby.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mr. Haley leaves Mr. Shelby, what is the awful truth that Mrs. Shelby learns?

2. What does Simeon suggest as the wisest time to begin slave travel northward?

3. Who raised Eliza?

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

5. Where is the boat bound for that Tom boards with Mr. Haley?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think the author's purpose is in having a man help Eliza escape even though he is a friend of Mr. Shelby's?

2. 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?

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

4. When and how do George and Eliza show their true religious nature?

5. How does the treatment of George by his master compare or contrast with how Eliza is treated by her owners.

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

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

8. What character speaks about laws and says, "we have nothing to do with them; all they are for is to crush us, and keep us down."

9. 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?

10. 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?

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