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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 is it that Eliza finds useful while crossing the river?
(a) A small canoe.
(b) Chunks of ice.
(c) A kind riverboat captain.
(d) A wooden raft.

2. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what does "a neat garden patch, where, every summer, strawberries, raspberries, and a variety of fruit and vegetables, flourished" describe?
(a) The exterior of Uncle Tom's cabin.
(b) The exterior of Eliza's slave quarters.
(c) The exterior of George's house.
(d) The exterior of the main house on the plantation.

3. Where is the boat bound for that Tom boards with Mr. Haley?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Natchez.
(c) Kansas City.
(d) Atlanta.

4. What has Haley done to Tom that reveals that even Haley recognizes Tom's gentleness and loyalty to his master?
(a) He eats meals with Tom.
(b) He tells him that he will call off the search for Eliza and Harry.
(c) He tells Tom that he appreciates Tom's religious beliefs.
(d) He takes the chains off his ankles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Shelby offer Haley to content him when their business deal gets delayed?

2. What does Harry do when he first meets Mr. Shelby and Mr. Haley?

3. When the boat Tom is aboard docks, what does Tom do?

4. Why doesn't Eliza see her husband much?

5. Which includes most of the descriptive details of Eliza at the doorstep of the Bird's house?

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

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

4. 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."

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

6. What character says, "don't quote the Bible at me that way," and what does this quotation reveal about his character?

7. 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?

8. How does the reader know that Eliza trusts Mrs. Shelby?

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

10. 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?

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