View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When George and Eliza are reunited, what is Eliza trying to convince George of?
(a) To become a Christian.
(b) To leave for Canada alone and then send for her and Harry.
(c) That it is better for the three of them to travel together.
(d) To live with the Hallidays for a while.

2. To what place does George plan to travel?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Canada.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Kentucky.

3. Where is one place where George works?
(a) Mr. Haley's plantation.
(b) A factory.
(c) Mr. Shelby's plantation.
(d) The railroad station.

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

5. Who does the search party actually take orders from?
(a) Mrs. Shelby.
(b) Mr. Shelby.
(c) Black Sam.
(d) Andy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mr. Butler headed when the reader meets him in the tavern?

2. How could the people who go to search for Eliza and Harry be described?

3. Who is Cudjoe?

4. When does Mrs. Shelby first learn the details about Mr. Haley's visit to the plantation?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect of describing the actual cabin of Uncle Tom as a place where flowers grow and people worship and eat together?

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

3. What does the reader learn in Chapters 2 and 3 about Eliza's past as a mother?

4. How does one detect a difference in the manners between Mr. Shelby and Mr. Haley?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 923 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample