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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Simon Legree's plantation?
(a) On the New Orleans River in Lousiana.
(b) On the Red River in Mississippi.
(c) On the Mississippi River in Louisiana.
(d) On the Red River in Louisiana.

2. When the Shelby's get Uncle Tom's letter, what does Mr. Shelby say that Tom should do to get on with his life?
(a) Work hard and pray for things to work out.
(b) Find another woman to marry.
(c) Ask if he can visit the Shelbys.
(d) Ask his new employer to uy Aunt Chloe and their childen.

3. When Cassy and Emmeline hatch a plan to escape from the Legree plantation, how do Cassy and Emmeline disguise themselves?
(a) As French.
(b) As ghosts.
(c) As Mexicans.
(d) As Spaniards.

4. When George and his family are established in Canada, what is it that George specifically says he wants more than anything?
(a) An education.
(b) A home in the mountains.
(c) A home near the ocean.
(d) His own business.

5. When Aunt Chloe gets a letter from Tom, what issue does it raise in the Shelby household?
(a) Visiting Tom in New Orleans.
(b) Buying back Tom.
(c) Having Tom visit his family on a regular basis.
(d) Buying the New Orleans plantation.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the reader is returned to the story line of George and his family in Chapter 43, where in Canada are they living?

2. When Eva talks to Topsy about love, what is the one thing/person that Topsy admits to loving?

3. When Augustine lectures Miss Ophelia on how to properly treat a slave, what kind of treatment does he say is most effective?

4. What kind of cook is Old Dinah described as?

5. When Tom goes out to work in the fields at Legree's plantation, who does Tom help pick cotton in the fields?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the ironic about Emmeline's being brought up "by the Bible?"

2. How do the events on the boat suggest that the novel is nearing a conclusion of a story?

3. What does Stowe insist that Northerners do to truly live by their Christian beliefs?

4. As the loose ends of the story are tied up in Chapter 44, what is the purpose of Chapter 45, the final chapter?

5. Why is Cassy a key character in through whom Stowe explores Simon Legree's temperament and treatment of slaves?

6. How do the physical descriptions of Simon Legree himself and his plantation symbolize his character?

7. Why might Stowe ends this chapter speaking directly to the reader about what might it feel like to be free for the first time?

8. With all the happy endings in the book, why might Stowe have chosen to have Tom, the most beloved character, beat to death?

9. 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..."

10. What do readers learn about the development of a person from the relationship between Eva and Topsy?

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