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

2. Why is Lake Pontchartrain important to the action of Chapter 22?
(a) It is where the St Clare family's summer villa is.
(b) It is where Eva says she wants to visit.
(c) It is where Augustine wants to build a small plantation.
(d) It is where Uncle Tom fishes.

3. What area of his own house does Legree come to believe is haunted?
(a) The garret.
(b) The library.
(c) Cassy's room.
(d) The cellar.

4. Once Emmeline is at the Legree plantation, what does Emmeline try to convince another woman to do with her?
(a) Burn the mansion.
(b) Poison Legree.
(c) Escape.
(d) Put ground glass in Legree's food.

5. To whom does Eva give reading lessons?
(a) Alfreda.
(b) Mammy.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Alfred.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Aunt Chloe gets a letter from Tom, what issue does it raise in the Shelby household?

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

3. When Cassy and Emmeline hatch a plan to escape from the Legree plantation, how do Cassy and Emmeline disguise themselves?

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

5. Because of Legree's superstitious nature, who is the unlikely person that he fears?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mr. Shelby's objection to Mrs. Shelby having taught religion to the slaves?

2. 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..."

3. What happens in Chapter 38 where Tom is left along often that actually foreshadows Tom's death?

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

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

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

7. How is Tom's death the epitome of selflessness and forgiveness?

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

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. How does Miss Ophelia's feelings about "training" Topsy reveal what the problem is for people who attempt to control their servants or slaves with violence?

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