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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What three adjectives does Gray use to describe Nat Turner's mind?
(a) Dark, bewildered, and overwrought.
(b) Evil, thoughtless, and cruel.
(c) Distraught, feverish, and plotting.
(d) Excited, devious, and mischievous.

2. What does Gray tell Nat about the Bible, when he cannot bring one to Nat?
(a) It is a waste of time.
(b) It is better left alone.
(c) It is not ment for Nat.
(d) It is evil.

3. Who is Jeremiah Cobb?
(a) A saloon keeper.
(b) A white man who survived by hiding from the slaves.
(c) A neighbor of Joseph Travis, Nat's master.
(d) The judge at Nat's trial.

4. What does Gray feel that Nat's rebellion will further the cause of?
(a) Voting rights for blacks.
(b) Abolition.
(c) Anti-abolition.
(d) Easing restrictions on blacks.

5. What reason does Gray give in his introduction for publishing Nat's confessions?
(a) To pay off his debts.
(b) For the gratification of public curiosity.
(c) To create a record for posterity.
(d) To write an abolitionist tract.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Gray speaks of understanding Nat's mind, what does he say about it?

2. Which part of his body causes Cobb pain?

3. What weapon does Nat's captor carry?

4. Turner says he submits Nat's "own account of the conspiracy" to the public ____________.

5. Who gives T. R. Gray permission to talk to Nat in jail?

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