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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
One of the necessary components of a tragic hero is that he dies. In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Tom dies. If the reader accepts that Tom is a hero, what other qualities of a hero does Tom exemplify?
Conversely, you may decide that Tom is not a hero. If so, refer to specific incidents or quotations that support your view.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe has her principle black characters return to Africa and do missionary work. Evaluate that "ending" versus having them remain in Canada. What does this ending suggest about her feelings about:
a. racial integration,
b. the eventual abolition of slavery,
c. the contribution of blacks to American society, and
d. the obligation that white Americans had to the slaves that they obtained and exploited?
You may decide to write about three or all four of these topics.
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