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

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

3. What "happy days" does Eliza think of as she leaves the Shelby house?
(a) Days happily learning to read and write with the young master.
(b) Days happily tending Mrs. Shelby.
(c) Days with her husband.
(d) Days happily working in the kitchen.

4. Who is Andy?
(a) A slave who travels with Mr. Haley.
(b) A slave who belongs to the Shelbys.
(c) A slave who travels around trying to help runaway slaves find shelter.
(d) A code name for Harry.

5. What is it that Mrs. Bird feels is ignored by the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act?
(a) Economy.
(b) Politics.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Phineas Fletcher?

2. When does the reader see evidence of the slaves belief in Christianity in Chapter 4?

3. Why does Eliza fear for George to travel so far?

4. How does Senator Bird react when his wife objects to the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act?

5. Who raised Eliza?

Short Essay Questions

1. How might the modern reader interpret Mr. Shelby's plan to be absent from the plantation when Tom is to be taken away?

2. 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?"

3. 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?

4. What are the two things in this historical fiction that were real and introduced in Chapter 9?

5. 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?

6. Why might the author so frequently speak directly to the reader and asks the reader questions as she does in the last four to five paragraphs at the end of this chapter?

7. What does the reader's first impression of Harry reveal about him?

8. How are Miss Ophelia's views of blacks more complicated than the racial views of other whites we have met so far?

9. How does this chapter about Tom's leaving further the theme of Christianity versus the law that has been developed so far?

10. Compare or contrast Mr. Shelby's and Mr. Haley's opinions on how to treat slaves should be treated.

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