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

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) Eliza is her daughter and that she is free in Canada.
(c) George is her son and that he is free in Canada.
(d) George is her brother and that he is free in Canada.

3. Who is the Quaker woman that George and Eliza are staying with in Chapter 37?
(a) Miss Halliday.
(b) Miss Sandusky.
(c) Aunt Dorcas.
(d) Miss Smyth.

4. What is it that Topsy does that angers Miss Ophelia?
(a) Refuses to eat the food that the other slaves eat.
(b) Has a tantrum and throws things around Miss Ophelia's room.
(c) Tries to play with Eva and Eva's toys.
(d) Cuts up her bonnets and makes doll's jackets from them.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?"

3. Who is Madame de Thoux?

4. According to Chapter 45, what famous lawyer defended 76 slaves who attempted escape on a schooner named Pearl?

5. In Chapter 45 what other "character" does the reader learn is based upon the same story as old Pru?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Miss Ophelia's feelings about "training" Topsy reveal what the problem is for people who attempt to control their servants or slaves with violence?

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

5. How does the language of Eliza and George's escape to freedom reflect the mood of this journey--"The blue waves of Lake Erie danced, rippling and sparkling in the sunlight. A fresh breeze blew from the shore, and the lordly boat ploughed her way right gallantly onward."

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

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

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

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

10. 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..."

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