Uncle Tom's Cabin Quiz

What was Stowe's reason for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• She needed to feed her family

• She wrote it to memorialize her friend Josiah Grannell

• She wanted to show the good side of slavery

• She wanted to reveal the evils of slavery

True or False. Most historians credit Uncle Tom’s Cabin with starting the Civil War.

• True

• False

Where did Stowe gain information for writing about the lives of slaves?

• Stowe witnessed what her family’s slaves experienced

• Stowe’s brother was a well-known slave trader

• She met runaway slaves while living near Kentucky

• She briefly owned slaves

What facts would you choose to support the fact that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a huge success?

• It was a best seller for months in the southern states

• The first printing sold out in just two days.

• The book sold millions of copies

• It was translated into several of languages.

How did Uncle Tom's Cabin effect many Northern readers?

• Many northerners believed southerners claims that the book was filled with lies

• Many northerners ignored slavery as a political problem for Congress to settle

• More and more Northerners now saw slavery as a moral problem facing every American

• Uncle Tom's Cabin was one of the most important books in American history.

What is Harriet Beecher Stowe most known for?

• Meeting President Abraham Lincoln

• Starting the Civil War

• She was a well-known abolitionist

• Writing the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin