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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 was the general opinion of Miss Ophelia in the St. Clare household?
(a) She is a wonderful addition.
(b) She is a nuisance.
(c) She is very helpful, but doesn't understand how to treat Eva.
(d) She is getting to be more and more useful every day.

2. Whose funeral takes place at the villa on the lake at the end of Chapter 27?
(a) Topsy's.
(b) Eva's.
(c) Mrs. St. Clare's.
(d) Uncle Tom's.

3. When Eva talks to Topsy about love, what is the one thing/person that Topsy admits to loving?
(a) Uncle Tom.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Playing with dolls.
(d) Candy.

4. According to Chapter 45, which characters are drawn from real people aboard the schooner named Pearl?
(a) Eliza and George.
(b) Aunt Chloe and Uncle Tom.
(c) Eliza and Harry.
(d) Emmeline and Cassy.

5. From whom does the reader learn that a black person's testimony as witness in a trial means nothing?
(a) Mrs. Shelby.
(b) Mr. Shelby.
(c) Simon Legree.
(d) Uncle Tom.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the author's last chapter in which she discusses the sources for her novel, who does she say told Stowe of the story of "old Pru?"

2. Who was in charge of the new slave in St. Clare household?

3. In Canada, what is George's occupation?

4. As Chapter 30 begins, what is the treatment of slaves at a slave warehouse?

5. Who is Dodo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the physical descriptions of Simon Legree himself and his plantation symbolize his character?

2. Why might Stowe have had the significant black characters who are now free end up going to Africa to do missionary work?

3. What does the death of Augustine emphasize about the lives and futures of their slaves?

4. What happens in Chapter 38 where Tom is left along often that actually foreshadows Tom's death?

5. What is ironic about how and why Augustine St. Clare dies?

6. What purpose does Augustine St. Clare's defense of slavery serve to the reader?

7. What do readers learn about the development of a person from the relationship between Eva and Topsy?

8. What is the ironic about Emmeline's being brought up "by the Bible?"

9. As the loose ends of the story are tied up in Chapter 44, what is the purpose of Chapter 45, the final chapter?

10. How is Cassy and Emmeline's "escape" from Legree bittersweet?

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