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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 Eliza tell the Birds when she appears at their house?
(a) A story she made up about being beaten.
(b) A story about her masters not giving her sick child health care.
(c) The story of her escape and exhaustion.
(d) A story about her evil owners.

2. How does Mrs. Shelby view the news of "her" slaves being sold?
(a) She feels badly, but accepts the fact that these things happen on plantations.
(b) She is angry and wants to take her favorite slaves and run away.
(c) She feels that she can change her husband's mind.
(d) She feels that it is God's curse on the people involved in slavery.

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

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

5. What is Aunt Chloe's mood on this morning after Eliza's escape?
(a) Happy that Eliza and Harry have escaped.
(b) Sad because she misses Eliza and Harry.
(c) Worried about the safety of Eliza and Harry.
(d) Sad because she thinks she will never see Tom again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Augustine St. Clare?

2. Who is Dinah?

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

4. Who is "Mr. Butler?"

5. In the conversation in the tavern about how to best manage slaves, what is it that interrupts this discussion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What provides the comic relief in Chapter 6?

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

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

4. How is the theme of religion versus politics explored in Chapter 9?

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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