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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. When the Shelby's get Uncle Tom's letter, what does Mr. Shelby say that Tom should do to get on with his life?
(a) Ask his new employer to uy Aunt Chloe and their childen.
(b) Ask if he can visit the Shelbys.
(c) Find another woman to marry.
(d) Work hard and pray for things to work out.

2. As Cassy, escapes aboard a boat, she listens to a conversation among several slaves that she doesn't know, what piece of information does she find out that is personally meaningful to her?
(a) Eliza is her sister and that she is free in Canada.
(b) George is her brother and that he is free in Canada.
(c) George is her son and that he is free in Canada.
(d) Eliza is her daughter and that she is free in Canada.

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

4. After young George Shelby returns from the Legree plantation, what option does George Shelby offer his former slaves as he frees them?
(a) To write each of them letters of recommendation for employment.
(b) To arrange for their transportation to Canada.
(c) To arrange for their transportation to Africa to become missionaries.
(d) To keep them on as paid employees.

5. When George and his family are established in Canada, what is it that George specifically says he wants more than anything?
(a) His own business.
(b) An education.
(c) A home near the ocean.
(d) A home in the mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the conclusion of Chapter 41, whose suffering from being beaten does Quimbo and Sambo witness?

2. At the slave auction, what does Emmeline do when Legree examined her?

3. In a heated discussion with Miss Ophelia, what does Mrs. St. Clare say she would have done to Topsy?

4. Once Emmeline is at the Legree plantation, what does Emmeline try to convince another woman to do with her?

5. How effective of a money manager is Augustine St. Clare?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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