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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 was the general opinion of Miss Ophelia in the St. Clare household?
2. When Eva talks to Topsy about love, what is the one thing/person that Topsy admits to loving?
3. Who tries to convince Tom that it would be advantageous to him to burn his Bible?
4. When Eliza travels to Canada, what other member of her party is in disguise?
5. Weeks after Eva's funeral, who gets comfort from singing from an old hymn book found in a drawer?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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..."
2. What does Stowe insist that Northerners do to truly live by their Christian beliefs?
3. What is ironic about how and why Augustine St. Clare dies?
4. 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."
5. What is the ironic about Emmeline's being brought up "by the Bible?"
6. What purpose does Augustine St. Clare's defense of slavery serve to the reader?
7. What happens in Chapter 38 where Tom is left along often that actually foreshadows Tom's death?
8. What event triggers the turning point in Augustine's religious beliefs and who is responsible for his religious education here?
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. How is Cassy and Emmeline's "escape" from Legree bittersweet?
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
Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel that exposed slavery was written in 1852; the Declaration of Independence written in 1776 declared "all mean are created equal." While the existence of slavery was proof that all men were not created equal, what evidence is there in the novel that all men were, in fact, created equal?
Essay Topic 3
While the author is writing to protest and put an end to slavery, she was writing for a significant portion of the population that believed slavery was necessary to their economy. On a very basic level, she had to show what was evil about slavery. What situations did she create to most effectively show the evils of slavery? To discuss this, review the treatments of specific slaves in specific incidents such as Tom, Eliza, George, Aunt Chloe, Emmeline, and Topsy.
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