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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. Who is Harry?
(a) A child slave who has run away in search of freedom.
(b) A child slave on the Haley plantation.
(c) A child slave on the Shelby plantation.
(d) A child slave on the Harris plantation.

2. What is one thing that happens in the Quaker household that is different from any households that the reader has seen in this novel so far?
(a) Whites and blacks eat in the same room, but at separate tables.
(b) Blacks and whites eat meals at the same table.
(c) Whites act as servants to the whites.
(d) Whites and blacks sing spirituals before they dine.

3. Who is John Von Trompe?
(a) A lawyer whom Haley hired to retrieve Eliza and Harry.
(b) A person who works as part of the Underground Railroad.
(c) A lawyer who worked against all slave traders who came North.
(d) A lawyer who worked with all slave traders in the North.

4. How does Mrs. Shelby feel about the people who are in charge of the search party?
(a) She wants them to delay and not actually find Eliza and her son.
(b) She is so sad that she cannot even discuss this matter.
(c) She knows their work and is worried they will bring Eliza and her son back and they will be sold.
(d) She is confident that her husband will make things right.

5. In the chapter titled "The Property is Carried Off" what is the "property" that is referred to here?
(a) Uncle Tom.
(b) Harry.
(c) A railroad car.
(d) Eliza.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Eliza?

2. Who does Mr. Shelby think that Haley speaks of too casually and disrespectfully?

3. Who says, "I'm in the Lord's hands," as the action of Chapter 10 begins?

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

5. What does Eliza tell the Birds when she appears at their house?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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."

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

3. The author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, feels it is important for her readers to know the substance of the Fugitive Slave Act. What does she do inform the reader of this law?

4. How does the reader learn that Quakers are anti-slavery?

5. 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?

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

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

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

10. What are two good reasons that "The Mother's Struggle" is an appropriate title for Chapter 7?

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