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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 news is it that Rachel has for Eliza?
(a) Her husband is dead.
(b) Her husband has escaped, but was captured by slave catchers and returned to Kentucky.
(c) Her husband has escaped and will join them tonight.
(d) Her husband made it to Canada.

2. When Mr. Haley leaves Mr. Shelby, what is the awful truth that Mrs. Shelby learns?
(a) Uncle Tom will be sold, but that he can stay until after harvest.
(b) Harry will be sold and gone tomorrow.
(c) Uncle Tom will be sold and gone tomorrow.
(d) Uncle Tom and Harry will be sold and gone tomorrow.

3. What are Mr. Shelby and Mr. Haley discussing in Chapter 1?
(a) Their marriages.
(b) Whether slavery is moral or immoral.
(c) Successful crops on their plantations.
(d) How Mr. Shelby will pay Mr. Haley the debt he owes.

4. By what means of transportation does Mr. Haley travel with Tom?
(a) By carriage.
(b) By train.
(c) By boat.
(d) On horseback.

5. How could the people who go to search for Eliza and Harry be described?
(a) Deputies.
(b) Slaves who are trying NOT to catch Eliza and Harry.
(c) A few nearby friendly plantation owners.
(d) White men who will get paid if they bring them back.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mr. Haley becomes agitated during their discussion of slave treatment, what does Mr. Shelby try to calm him with?

2. How does Mrs. Selby react to the news that Eliza has escaped?

3. Who says that he/she "wouldn't give a flip" for politics?

4. Who is Cudjoe?

5. What does Senator Bird give someone to help support Eliza before he and she parted?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What provides the comic relief in Chapter 6?

6. How is the character of Phineas contrasted with that of Halliday?

7. 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?"

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

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

10. When Mrs. Shelby speaks of this sale of her slaves being a curse from God, her husband accuses her of sounding like an abolitionist. Why is that such a harsh accusation?

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