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Uncle Tom’s Cabin Movie Questions
Directions: While watching the movie, answer the following questions.
1. Who wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin? Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. In what state and year does the movie open?
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3. Why does the slave owner sell Tom and Jimmy?
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4. Who are Tom and Jimmy sold to?
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5. What does Eliza decide to do to keep her son from being sold?
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6. How much does Mr. Healy pay the man to catch Eliza?
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7. What does the boy give Tom for luck?
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8. Who takes in Eliza and Jimmy?
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9. What type of boat does Tom ride on?
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10. What does Tom give Evangeline?
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11. Where does Eliza and her family plan on going?
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12. What does Chloe do to get the money to bring Tom back home?
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13. What’s the name of the slave girl who was given to Cousin Ophelia?
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14. What was Topsy accused of stealing?
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15. Do the slave catchers catch George and his family?
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16. What does the Quaker give George and his family to help with their journey North?
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17. What is Evangeline’s mother’s attitude about slaves learning to read?
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18. What does Evangeline want to do with her mother’s pearls?
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19. What is starting to happen to Evangeline?
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20. What does Evangeline’s mother say is wrong with her?
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21. What does Augustine give Tom after Evangeline dies?
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22. Why doesn’t Tom get his freedom?
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23. What does Augustine’s wife do with the slaves?
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24. How much is Tom sold for?
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25. Who does the slave owner have helping him with the slaves?
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26. How are Tom’s new sleeping quarters?
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27. What does Tom do to help the slave woman who didn’t pick enough cotton?
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28. What does the slave owner do when he hears Tom is giving away his cotton?
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29. What is Tom doing while he lies in the barn after being whipped?
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30. What does the slave owner want to do to Tom?
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31. How far are Eliza and George from their freedom?
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32. What did Eliza and her son have to do so the slave catchers wouldn’t recognize
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33. What does Cassie want Tom to do to the slave owner?
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34. What do Cassie and Emma plan to do?
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35. What is Tom’s punishment for not telling the slave owner where the girls are?
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36. How do the slaves feel after they beat Tom?
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37. How do Cassie and Emma finally escape?
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38. Why does Christopher Shelby come to the plantation?
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39. What are Tom’s last words?
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40. What does Christopher do to the slave owner after Tom dies?
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Think about it…
41. Why do you think Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a sad ending for Tom?
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