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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Shelby offer Haley to content him when their business deal gets delayed?

2. Who apparently knows nothing of Mr. Shelby's debt?

3. Who is Eva?

4. Who are Bill and Jerry?

5. What did Aunt Chloe make for breakfast as "the property" prepares to leave the cabin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What provides the comic relief in Chapter 6?

2. How does Harry's tolerance for being a slave compare or contrast with Eliza's?

3. Why might the author so frequently speak directly to the reader and asks the reader questions as she does in the last four to five paragraphs at the end of this chapter?

4. What is it that offers Mrs. Shelby a moment of worry, then relief at the beginning of Chapter 6?

5. How does the reader know that Mr. Shelby regards his wife's happiness as important?

6. What are two good reasons that "The Mother's Struggle" is an appropriate title for Chapter 7?

7. Why do black people in the novel freely use the "n" word?

8. What is the effect of describing the actual cabin of Uncle Tom as a place where flowers grow and people worship and eat together?

9. How are Miss Ophelia's views of blacks more complicated than the racial views of other whites we have met so far?

10. How does the reader learn that Quakers are anti-slavery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Religion is a motif in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Several characters have very different opinions the value of religion in one's life. Compare or contrast the religious view of three of the following characters:

Uncle Tom

Eliza

George Harris

Rachel Halliday

Augustine St. Clare

Simon Legree

Essay Topic 2

The term "Uncle Tom" has come to have a very disparaging, insulting meaning in our modern society. It has come to describe an African American whom other African Americans consider to be subservient to white people and who treats whites in a way that suggests they are superior. This term comes from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. After reading this novel, decide whether a reader should be empathetic to Tom's treatment of whites or whether this character deserves this reputation. Obviously, to answer this question, the writer must refer to specific deeds or quotations from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

In the world of Uncle Tom's Cabin slavery is legal, escaping a plantation is illegal, being a slave catcher is a job, and as such, it is legal. How does Stowe explore the theme of legality versus morality through what we learn happens on plantations, the consequences of escaping, and the responsibilities slave catching?

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