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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. Broadly speaking, what are Eliza's religious beliefs?
2. What is Aunt Chloe's primary responsibility of the plantation?
3. What is it that Eliza finds useful while crossing the river?
4. When Phineas and Mr. Halliday are counseling George, What does George have that they are worried about?
5. In the conversation in the tavern about how to best manage slaves, what is it that interrupts this discussion?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do you think the author's purpose is in having a man help Eliza escape even though he is a friend of Mr. Shelby's?
2. How is the character of Phineas contrasted with that of Halliday?
3. What is it that offers Mrs. Shelby a moment of worry, then relief at the beginning of Chapter 6?
4. When Mrs. Shelby speaks of this sale of her slaves being a curse from God, her husband accuses her of sounding like an abolitionist. Why is that such a harsh accusation?
5. Why do black people in the novel freely use the "n" word?
6. What provides the comic relief in Chapter 6?
7. What are two good reasons that "The Mother's Struggle" is an appropriate title for Chapter 7?
8. The author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, feels it is important for her readers to know the substance of the Fugitive Slave Act. What does she do inform the reader of this law?
9. What is the author's intent by contrasting Mr. Haley's sole interest in thinking of slaves in terms of their physical strength and how he will be able to resell them and Tom's continued pondering on the Bible and a "pitying Jesus?"
10. What does the reader's first impression of Harry reveal about him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the characters that most embody love and why this theme of love is so important to an anti-slavery novel.
Essay Topic 2
Once Tom is sold to the St. Clare family, he and little Eva St. Clare develop a true friendship.
a. What is the common bond of these two characters?
b. How does their friendship help Stowe's argument that slavery is inherently inhumane?
c. How is it significant that both of these characters die?
Essay Topic 3
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
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