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Wordly Wise Lesson 6 Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

escalated

b)

roused

c)

harbored

d)

catapulted

2.

Those who helped enslave people escape put themselves at risk. It was a crime to _________________ runaway enslaved people.

a)

harbor

b)

escalate

c)

grim

d)

steadfast

3.

Harriet Beecher Stowe believed slavery was a(n)_____________crime.

a)

monstrous

b)

grim

c)

loathe

d)

meddlesome

4.

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

a)

rouse

b)

abolish

c)

inflict

d)

denounce

5.

Slave owners could break up whole families by selling their members separately. We cannot imagine the __________________ suffered by the parents and their children.

a)

agony

b)

loathing

c)

translate

d)

monstrous

6.

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

a)

loathing

b)

meddlesome

c)

harbor

d)

grim

7.

Simon Legree was unpleasant because he enjoyed ___________________ pain on helpless people.

a)

inflicting

b)

meddling

c)

grim

d)

catapulting

8.

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

a)

characters

b)

abolish

c)

catapults

d)

harbors

9.

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

a)

grim

b)

monstrous

c)

agony

d)

rouse

10.

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

a)

denounced

b)

roused

c)

inflicted

d)

steadfast

11.

Supporters of the south told Stowe to mind her own business and stay out of theirs. She would probably have replied that she was proud to be called __________________.

a)

meddlesome

b)

loathsome

c)

steadfast

d)

monstrous

12.

Stowe devoted her life to ending slavery. It must have made her very happy when slavery was _______________ in 1863 by the order of President Lincoln.

a)

abolished

b)

escalated

c)

roused

d)

catapulted

13.

Stowe wrote other books besides Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was her story of slavery in America______________ her to world fame.

a)

catapulted

b)

inflicted

c)

roused

d)

escalated

14.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was popular with readers all over the world. it was first __________________ into German and then into many other languages.

a)

translated

b)

harbored

c)

abolished

d)

denounced

15.

Harriet Beecher Stowe shows that one person can make a difference. She was _____________ in her determination to end slavery.

a)

steadfast

b)

meddlesome

c)

harbored

d)

translated