Lesson 6

The years leading up to the Civil War were marked by strong disagreements. Tension _______ between North and South until war broke out.

• escalated

• escalates

• escalate

Those who helped slaves scaping from their owners put themselves at risk. It was a crime to _____ runaway slaves.

• harbored

• harbor

• harbors

Stowe felt that she had to do something to help end slavery. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to ______ the people against what she felt was a terrible evil.

• rouse

• roused

Slaveholders could break up whole families by selling their members separately. We cannot imagine the ____ suffered by the parents and their children.

• agony

• joy

There are some hateful people in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Readers of the book probably feel the greatest ____ for Simon Legree.

• loathed

• loathing

Legree treated Uncle Tom brutally. Trying to make him whip the weak, female slave was a _____ act. (Which spelling is correct?)

• monstrous

• monsterous

Punishment was harsh for slaves who displeased their masters. The whipping _____ on Uncle Tom was so severe that he died.

• inflict

• inflicted

• inflicts

Eliza and her child are central to the story of Uncle Tom's Cabin. These are the two _____ that readers probably care about the most.

• characters

• character

Eliza made up her mind to escape. She made her decision after hearing the _____ news that her child was to be sold.

• grim

• monstrous

• escalated

Southern slave owners were upset by Uncle Tom's Cabin. They _____ Stowe for interfering in matters she didn't understand.

• denounce

• denounced

• escalated