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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. In a heated discussion with Miss Ophelia, what does Mrs. St. Clare say she would have done to Topsy?
(a) Read the Bible to her.
(b) Whipped her.
(c) Sent her to her cabin without dinner.
(d) Slapped her face.

2. When the reader is returned to the story line of George and his family in Chapter 43, where in Canada are they living?
(a) Montreal.
(b) Amherstburg.
(c) Toronto.
(d) Quebec City.

3. When Rosa and Ophelia think they see Topsy hiding something she has stolen, what does this item turn out to be?
(a) A book that Eva gave her.
(b) A bag of Candy that Ophelia was going to give her later that night.
(c) A pie that Mammy baked for dessert.
(d) A doll that Eva gave her.

4. When Aunt Chloe gets a letter from Tom, what issue does it raise in the Shelby household?
(a) Visiting Tom in New Orleans.
(b) Buying back Tom.
(c) Buying the New Orleans plantation.
(d) Having Tom visit his family on a regular basis.

5. Once Emmeline is at the Legree plantation, what does Emmeline try to convince another woman to do with her?
(a) Put ground glass in Legree's food.
(b) Poison Legree.
(c) Escape.
(d) Burn the mansion.

Short Answer Questions

1. At Legree's plantation, who does Simon Legree beat for singing?

2. Why does Topsy come to Eva's room daily?

3. In what city is the confectioner's shop (bakery that interests the Shelby plantation women)?

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

5. When Tom goes out to work in the fields at Legree's plantation, who does Tom help pick cotton in the fields?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the events on the boat suggest that the novel is nearing a conclusion of a story?

2. Why is Cassy a key character in through whom Stowe explores Simon Legree's temperament and treatment of slaves?

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

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

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

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

7. Explain how the following passage is foreshadowing: "the rays of the sun formed a kind of glory behind her [Eva], as she came forward in her white dress, with her golden hair and glowing cheeks, her eyes unnaturally bright..."

8. What does Stowe insist that Northerners do to truly live by their Christian beliefs?

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

10. Why might Simon Legree "secretly dislike" Tom and why was it so important for him to get Tom to whip a person?

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