Uncle Tom's Cabin Test | Final Test - Medium

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Uncle Tom's Cabin Test | Final Test - Medium

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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. What are Miss Ophelia's plans for Topsy's future?
(a) To teach her to read so that she can teach other slaves.
(b) To take her back to Vermont with her.
(c) To have Topsy move into Eva's old room.
(d) To ask for Mrs. St. Clare's help in raising Topsy.

2. What is Mr. Shelby's opinion of Mrs. Shelby's knowledge of business?
(a) She is a business genius.
(b) He thinks she should take a business course.
(c) She is learning more about the business of the plantation every day.
(d) She knows nothing about business.

3. Who greets Eliza with the words, "darling, I'm your mother!"
(a) Cassy.
(b) Emmeline.
(c) A Canadian fur store owner.
(d) Madame de Thoux.

4. Who is the "quadroon" that is the subject of chapter 34 entitled "The Quadroon's Story?"
(a) Lucy.
(b) Adelia.
(c) Cassy.
(d) Missis.

5. What state are George and Eliza in when the reader catches up with their story in Chapter 37?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 45, which characters are drawn from real people aboard the schooner named Pearl?

2. While Tom spends time outdoors with Eva, where is it that Eva tells Uncle Tom she will be going to soon?

3. On the first night at the Legree plantation, what does Tom dream of when he falls asleep?

4. Why does Topsy come to Eva's room daily?

5. According to Chapter 45, what famous lawyer defended 76 slaves who attempted escape on a schooner named Pearl?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might Stowe have had the significant black characters who are now free end up going to Africa to do missionary work?

2. 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."

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

4. 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..."

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

6. Why might Simon Legree "secretly dislike" Tom and why was it so important for him to get Tom to whip a person?

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

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

9. How does the author use color and/or physical characteristics to symbolize the difference between Augustine and his daughter, Eva, and Alfred and his son, Henrique?

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

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