American Literature. Seminar Task on “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by H. B. Stowe

I wish he’d never been born! I wish I had never been born myself!
Answer: I refers to George, he refers to his son, Harry.
11. Why George came to say goodbye to Eliza, what he wanted to do?
Answer: He was intending to escape to Canada.
12. What did Shelby ask Haley when the papers were signed in?
Answer: Not to sell Tom without knowing what sort of hands he’s going into
13.What letter did Eliza leave to her mistress?
Answer: "O, Missis! Dear Missis! Don't think hard of me. I heard all you and master said tonight. I am going to try to save my boy. Please don't blame me! God bless you for all your kindness!"
14. Fill in the blank.
………….. was the only person who could say something about the missing girl, but she was silent.
Answer: The head cook, Aunt Chloe
15.Who asked some of the slaves to get a horse for Haley?
Answer: Mr. Shelby
16. How did Eliza cross the river?
Answer: With one wild cry she jumped over the current of water on a piece of ice. The huge green mass of ice on which she landed creaked, but she stayed there only a moment. She jumped to another cake of ice. Then to another! And another again! Her shoes were gone. Her stockings were cut away, and blood from her feet marked every step. But she saw nothing, felt nothing, till, as in a dream, she saw the Ohio side, and a man helping her up the bank.
17. Who are Abolitionists and what is their intention?
Answer: Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery that originated in northern states in the XIX century. Abolitionists focused attention on slavery and made it difficult to ignore. Their efforts proved to be extremely effective.
18. When and how Mr. Wilson and George met?
Answer: It was late in the afternoon. Mr. Wilson was at a small country hotel, in the village of N– , in Kentucky. There he met a stranger. It was a well-dressed gentleman with a coloured servant. He was very tall, with a handsome dark, Spanish face. Expressive black eyes, straight thin nose and fine body impressed other guests as something uncommon. He gave in his name as Henry Butler, Oaklands, Shelby County. But later, it turned out that it was George, when he invited Mr. Wilson to his room for a talk. He was playing the part of a gentleman travelling with his servant.
19. What family protected Eliza and Harry in Quaker village in Ohio?
Answer: The Hallidays
20. Fill in the blank. Marie St.Clare spent most of her time on a …. with a novel and smelling salts
Answer: couch
21. Henrique whipped his slave because he has allowed his horse to get dirty.
It is True or False? Explain the statement.
Answer: False, because he whipped Dodo for letting the horse get dirty, and Henrique got upset and didn’t even want to listen to the explanation. This means Henrique didn’t allow his horse to get dirty.
22. What happened to Augustine St Clare in the cafe?
Answer: St. Clare had gone into a café, to look over an evening paper. As he was reading, two gentlemen, whom he slightly knew, quarreled. St. Clare and one or two others tried to separate them, and St. Clare was fatally wounded with a knife in the struggle. Soon after he was examined by a doctor, he died.
23. Why did Susan ask her daughter Emmeline to brush her hair straight back?
Why didn’t her trick work?
Answer: She wanted her to look less pretty, but told her daughter it would look more respectable to get sold better. But Mr. Skeggs didn’t like it and sent the girls to make the curls again.
24. Choose the correct preposition to complete the sentence: against, into, in, under