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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 Senator Bird give someone to help support Eliza before he and she parted?

2. When does the reader see evidence of the slaves belief in Christianity in Chapter 4?

3. Shortly before Chapter 1 ends, what is Eliza afraid will happen?

4. What does Eliza bring along for her and Harry to eat as they travel?

5. When Phineas expresses understanding about this thing George possesses, how does Mr. Halliday react?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does one detect a difference in the manners between Mr. Shelby and Mr. Haley?

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

3. What character says, "don't quote the Bible at me that way," and what does this quotation reveal about his character?

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

5. What is the significance of John Von Trompe being described as a former "land-holder and slave owner in the state of Kentucky?"

6. What are the two things in this historical fiction that were real and introduced in Chapter 9?

7. What character speaks about laws and says, "we have nothing to do with them; all they are for is to crush us, and keep us down."

8. How might the modern reader interpret Mr. Shelby's plan to be absent from the plantation when Tom is to be taken away?

9. 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?

10. Why does the author write that "Sam was in wonderful spirits," when each of his possible sightings of Eliza turn out to not be her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are several characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin who exemplify courage; conversely, there are several who exemplify cowardice. Identify these characters as their depiction of courage or cowardice. Then specifically refer to what actions or words of theirs come to embody these qualities and define courage and cowardice.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe pits slavery against Christianity. Explore how she comes to depict the incompatibility of the two institutions, slavery and Christianity by referring to and exploring specific situations throughout the novel.

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