Uncle Tom’s cabin – RING THE BELL

1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a novel of…………….. because it grew out of responses of white writers to the abuses of
slavery. (Social protest)
2. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin , Eva’s statement that she will soon join the angels…..………… her death. (Foreshadows)
3. Harriet Beecher Stowe was………….. She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a response to…………. (an active
abolitionist, the 1850 passage of the second Fugitive Slave Act)
4. Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel which depicts the harsh reality of slavery.
5. In the novel Uncle Tom’s cabin, Mr. Shelby must sell some slaves, because he is in debt.
6. We can learn about slaves’ life from the excerpt The Martyr (Uncle Tom ‘s Cabin) that slaves are supposed
to obey all the orders of their masters; they may be beaten or killed if they won’t carry out their masters’
orders or run away.
7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin had a profound effect on …………..in the US (attitudes toward African Americans and
slavery)
8. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by …………….., who was……………… (Harriet Beecher Stowe, an active
abolitionist)
9. The symbols in Uncle Tom’s Cabin are……….. (Uncle Tom’s cabin (the destructive power of slavery and the
power of Christian love to defeat it); geography (North represents freedom, South represents slavery and
oppression))
10. Uncle Tom's Cabin uses the North to represent freedom and the South to represent slavery and
oppression.
11. The major conflict in the novel Uncle Tom’s cabin is between masters and slaves.
12. Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel because it exposes the evils/abuses of slavery.
13. Through the excerpt The Martyr, Simon Legree is described as…………. (brutal and cruel in words and
actions)
14. Through the excerpt The Martyr, Uncle Tom is described as………….(calm and determined)
15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin a sentimental novel because it evokes strong emotions in readers.
16. The theme of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is …….. (Slavery is evil, so it needs to be abolished).
17. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Uncle Tom and Eva become close friends because…….(they share the deep Christian
faith)
18. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Tom is sold three times.
19 The climax of Uncle Tom’s cabin is the sequence of events surrounding Uncle Tom’s renewal of religious
faith and his death.
20. Uncle Tom's Cabin is often credited with intensifying the sectional conflict between the North and the
South that led to the American Civil War.
21. Simon Legree buys Tom to work as a general overseer for his plantation.
22. The martyr refers to Tom, who is ready to die to protect his fellow slaves