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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. Why does Topsy come to Eva's room daily?
(a) To learn more about God.
(b) To learn to read.
(c) To play with Eva's toys.
(d) To bring flowers.

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

3. On the first night at the Legree plantation, what does Tom dream of when he falls asleep?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Being with his wife and children.
(c) Dying.
(d) Eva reading to him from the Bible.

4. At the end of Chapter 45, who does Stowe say will have "a heavy account to answer?"
(a) The Southern slave owners.
(b) The Christian church.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) The Northerners who did nothing to fight slavery.

5. What is done with Tom's clothes at the slave auction?
(a) They are divided up among other slaves.
(b) They are sold.
(c) They are made fun of.
(d) They are burned.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Aunt Chloe gets a letter from Tom, what issue does it raise in the Shelby household?

2. At the lake, who is it that finally insists that Eva should see a doctor?

3. Where is Simon Legree's plantation?

4. 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?"

5. What is Mr. Shelby's opinion of Mrs. Shelby's knowledge of business?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What event triggers the turning point in Augustine's religious beliefs and who is responsible for his religious education here?

3. 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..."

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

5. With all the happy endings in the book, why might Stowe have chosen to have Tom, the most beloved character, beat to death?

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

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

8. Why might Stowe ends this chapter speaking directly to the reader about what might it feel like to be free for the first time?

9. How is Tom's death the epitome of selflessness and forgiveness?

10. How does the author use color and/or physical characteristics to symbolize the difference between Augustine and his daughter, Eva, and Alfred and his son, Henrique?

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