INDO ENGLISH SCHOOL

CHAPTER NAME: UNCLE TOM- I

CLASS: III RADIENT READER: CHAPTER No: 27
Prepared By: Pinky Bhuyan

MEANINGS OF DIFFICULT WORDS USED IN THE CHAPTER

WORD MEANING
Slave A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey him
Cruel Wilfully causing pain or suffering to others
Whip Beat with a strip of leather
Sunbeam A ray of light
Breeze A gentle wind
Merchant A trader who sale goods in large quantities.
Happen Take place , occur
Freedom The power or right to act, speak or think as one want.
Trust Believe , faith
Logs A part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off.

ANTONYMS (OPPOSITES) OF WORDS USED IN THE CHAPTER

WORD ANTONYM
Happy Sad
Poor Richmond
Thick Thin
Easy Difficult
Heavy Light
Cruel Kind
Pulled Pushed
Full Empty
Hard Soft
Bought Sold
Freedom Slavery
Wide Narrow
Same Different
SENTENCES USING WORDS OR PHRASES USED IN THE CHAPTER

WORD/PHRASE SENTENCE
Afraid She was afraid of the lion.
Cruel Don't be cruel towards animal.
Breeze Breeze blow in the month of December.
Slave He was sold as a slave.
Freedom Don’t misuse your freedom.
Sunbeam One sunbeam lights a room.
Trust We all trust in God.
Merchant My friends father is a cotton merchant.
Sailed They sailed down a river on a steamboat.
Logs The logs blocked the road.

Questions with short answers covering the entire chapter:

QUESTION
Where did the slaves have to work?
How were the slaves treated by their
masters?
What kind of master did uncle Tom have?
What was uncle Tom's house called?
What made the house look very Pretty?
Why was uncle Tom sold by his master?
Why was it difficult for slaves to run away?
Why was uncle Tom allowed to go about the
boat freely?
How did he pass the time on the boat?
What did you even get to the slaves?
ANSWER
The slaves had to work very hard on the farmers and in the cotton
fields.
Very often their masters were cruel people. They used to whip the
poor black people to make them work harder.
Uncle Tom’s master was a kind man.
Uncle Tom's house was called as “Uncle Tom's Cabin”.
In front of the heart was a neat garden, which was full of flowers
and fruits this made the house look very pretty.
Uncle Tom was sold by his master because his master had become
very poor and he had to sell uncle Tom in order to get money.
It was difficult for slaves to run away because slaves had heavy
iron chains on their feet.
Uncle Tom was allowed to go about the boat freely because uncle
Tom’s new master knew that Tom would not run away.
Tom would sit upon The great bundles of cotton and watched the
lands through which they passed.
Eva gave candy, nuts and oranges to the slaves.

Extract Based questions with answers covering the entire chapter:

Extract No 1

Extract: “then I shall tell you a story of quite long ago”.

Questions
Who said the above line?
Name the two children.
What kind of stories did chhavi like
to hear?
What did Anurag like?
What did grandfather do?
Answers
Grandfather said the above line.
The name of the two children wear chhavi and Anurag.
Chhavi like to hear a story of long ago.
Anurag like to hear about things which happen today.
Grandfather left his pipe and pulled his chair near the fire.

Extract Based questions with answers covering the entire chapter:

Extract No 2

Extract: “Good! Said Anurag. I like to hear about other lands.”

Questions
The story was about which place?
Where were the slaves?
Where did the slaves have to work?
How were the masters?
What did the master do with the
slaves?
Answers
It was a story of America.
The slaves were in America.
The slaves had to work very hard on the farms and in the cotton fields.
The masters were cruel people.
They used to with the poor black people to make them work harder on the
farms.

Extract Based questions with answers covering the entire chapter:

Extract No 3

Extract: “The slave in this story had a kind master”.

Questions
Who said the above line?
What was the slave’s name?
Where and with whom did uncle
Tom live?
Who was uncle Tom’s new master?
What was uncle Tom's house called?
Answers
Grandfather said the above line.
The name of the slave was Uncle Tom.
Uncle Tom lived with his wife and family in a pretty hut made of logs.
Uncle Tom’s new master was a slave merchant.
Uncle Tom's house was called as “Uncle Tom's Cabin.”

Extract Based questions with answers covering the entire chapter:

Extract No 4

Extract: ‘I should have run away rather than be sold like a horse or a ship.’

Questions Answers
Who said the above line? Anurag said the above line.
Why was it difficult for slaves to run It was difficult for the slaves to run away because they had heavy iron
away? chains on their feet.
What did Tom's new master do with Tom’s new master use to buy and sell the slaves and made a great deal of
the slaves? money.
Who sail on a steamboat for days The slave merchant along with the slaves sail on a steamboat for days and
and days? days.
Tom would sit on the great bundle of cotton and was the land through
How did Uncle Tom pass the time on
which they pass some time he would read his Bible for he was very fond of
the boat?
its stories.

Extract Based questions with answers covering the entire chapter:

Extract No 5

Extract: ‘on the same boat there happened to be a little girl.’

Questions
What was the name of the little girl?
What she use to do?
What does the people say about
Eva?
For whom did Shiva feel sorry?
What did Eva give to the slaves?
Answers
The name of the little girl was Eva.
She used to run all over the boat.
People said that she was like a sunbeam or a summer breeze.
Eva felt very sorry for the for the slaves.
She gave candy, nuts, and oranges to the slaves.