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

2. When Eliza is describe as a "petted and indulged favorite," what does this mean?
(a) Eliza was ignored.
(b) Eliza was treated gently and given privileges.
(c) Eliza was spoiled rotten.
(d) Eliza was treated like a pet.

3. By the end of the action of the Chapter 17, what happens to Tom Lokar?
(a) He is wounded.
(b) He has met with Phineas, who gives him misleading information.
(c) He goes to the Halliday home and spies on Eliza and George.
(d) He goes to the Halliday home and served a good meal.

4. Who does Mr. Shelby think that Haley speaks of too casually and disrespectfully?
(a) Eliza and Harry.
(b) The President of the United States.
(c) Uncle Tom.
(d) Mrs. Shelby.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lucy?

2. Who is Augustine St. Clare?

3. Who is Harry?

4. How does Mrs. Selby react to the news that Eliza has escaped?

5. Who are the two characters introduced in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. What provides the comic relief in Chapter 6?

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

8. 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?"

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

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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