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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hank claimed to be able to tell good white people from bad by:
(a) How loudly they spoke.
(b) What they said.
(c) The look in their eyes.
(d) Their smell.

2. What does Gray refer to the insurgent slaves as?
(a) The "ebony slaughterers."
(b) A "band of ferocious miscreants."
(c) A "ravaging band of murderers."
(d) "Heartless heathens set upon vengeance."

3. How does Gray say Nat will be punished?
(a) Being tarred and feathered.
(b) A firing squad.
(c) The guillotine.
(d) The gallows.

4. In the introduction, what does Gray state Nat's mind "first became"?
(a) Upset and confused.
(b) Bewildered and confounded.
(c) Sad and depressed.
(d) Angry and twisted.

5. Turner says he submits Nat's "own account of the conspiracy" to the public ____________.
(a) "For posterity."
(b) "For you to judge."
(c) "As it was dictated to me."
(d) "Without comment."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Trezevant compare Nat to?

2. What was Nat's mother's name?

3. According to Gray's "Introduction" people in the Southampton area were __________.:

4. After Benjamin died, who inherited the plantation?

5. Why do Marse Sam and the traveling salesman go out to the veranda?

(see the answer key)

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