Literature
Story
Vocabulary
Story
Misc.
100
This is the law that infuriated Stowe and motivated her to write the novel.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
This is how Eliza crosses the river to escape Mr Haley.
What is jumping across on ice chunks?
100
This is a subtle, sometimes humorous, perception of inconsistency.
What is irony?
100
This is Legree's concubine.
Who is Cassy?
100
This is the comparison between Eva and Topsy.
EVA: white, good, quiet, free, loving, religious TOPSY: black, noisy, slave, bad, wicked, ignorant
200
This is the part of the story that the author claims to be true.
What is the incidents, with the characters having real counterparts?
200
This is the use of praise to put someone down.
What is sarcasm?
200
These are the two characters who turn out to be siblings in the end of the book.
Who are Madame Emily de Thoux and George Harris?
200
This is how Tom is compared to Christ in the novel. (At least three ways)
What is a model slave, a true martyr, religious, spiritual leader, kind, gentle, forgiving, forgives his killers as he is dying, values life...
300
This is the part of the slavery issue that Stowe says she only gave a "faint shadow, a dim picture."
What is suffering of the slaves?
300
This is the book's hypochondriac.
Who is Mrs. St. Clare?
300
These are words spoken that are heard by the audience but not by the other characters.
What is an aside?
300
These are the two characters who turn out to be mother and daughter in the end of the book.
Who are Cassy and Eliza?
300
This is how the Mammy Caricature is a perversion of reality. (at least 3 ways)
desexualized, big smile and big lips, greasy face, almost like the family pet, loves white family more than her own...
400
This is what Stowe believes to be the solution to slavery.
What is Christianity?
400
This is how Augustine St. Clare dies.
What is getting stabbed in a nearby fight?
400
This is a flat character.
What is a one-dimensional character, or one that does not change?
400
These are Tom's three owners and the comparisons between them.
Who are Shelby: humane, respected, well-liked; St. Clare: humane, indulgent, friend; and Legree: mean, evil, no respect, hated
400
This is how Uncle Tom and Aunt Chloe are different from Eliza and George and how Stowe uses this to illustrate racial stereotyping.
Uncle Tom and Aunt Chloe: dark-skinned with a dialect Eliza and George: light-skinned without black dialect Implies that light-skinned slaves speak better than dark-skinned slaves
500
This is where Stowe believes that escaping and freed slaves should live.
What is Liberia?
500
This is the name of the family Eliza stays with in the Quaker settlement.
What is Halliday?
500
This is a quadroon.
What is a person who has one black grandparent?
500
These are the names of Haley's hired slave hunters.
Who are Loker and Marks?
500
This is the year the book was written.
What is 1852?
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