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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 Dinah?
(a) The Birds' daughter.
(b) The Birds' maid.
(c) The Birds' niece.
(d) The Birds' dog.

2. When does Mrs. Shelby first learn the details about Mr. Haley's visit to the plantation?
(a) Mrs. Shelby doesn't find out about Mr. Haley and why he visits until she asks her husband about the meeting.
(b) She finds out when she walks in and hears them trying to whisper their plan.
(c) She finds out from young Master George that evening.
(d) She finds out from Eliza that evening.

3. To whom do Sam and Andy tell the story of Eliza's escape?
(a) All the slaves back at the plantation.
(b) Mr. Shelby and Mrs. Haley.
(c) Mr. And Mrs. Shelby.
(d) Two slave traders.

4. At the end of the Chapter 16, what aspect of work does Tom say he has experience with?
(a) He knows how to cook.
(b) He knows how to plant crops.
(c) He knows how supervise a house staff.
(d) He knows how to take care of horses.

5. What are Mr. Shelby and Mr. Haley discussing in Chapter 1?
(a) Successful crops on their plantations.
(b) Whether slavery is moral or immoral.
(c) Their marriages.
(d) How Mr. Shelby will pay Mr. Haley the debt he owes.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Chapter 7 opens, why is Eliza carrying Harry?

2. What does Simeon suggest as the wisest time to begin slave travel northward?

3. What happens to Lucy by the end of the Chapter 12?

4. By the end of the action of the Chapter 17, what happens to Tom Lokar?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. In spite of the differences between Tom and Eva's life situation, what character traits do they have in common?

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. What effect has studying the Christian religion had on Eliza?

5. What are the two things in this historical fiction that were real and introduced in Chapter 9?

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

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

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

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

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