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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nat tells Gray of an event that "laid the groundwork" for his later actions, including the insurrection. What was that event?
(a) Stealing small items with a group of childhood friends.
(b) Wanting to train for the priesthood.
(c) Being sold to a new master.
(d) As a child, relating events that had happened before his birth.

2. Who gives T. R. Gray permission to talk to Nat in jail?
(a) Nat's master.
(b) Nat's jailer.
(c) The preacher.
(d) Jeremiah Cobb.

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

4. In the Introduction, Gray hopes that the description of Nat's rebellion will demonstrate policy regarding what?
(a) The restraint of slaves.
(b) The sale of slaves.
(c) Educating slaves.
(d) Freeing slaves.

5. What does Gray state that Nat's confessions demonstrate about the laws?
(a) How they help locate runaway slaves.
(b) How they protect the white slaveholders.
(c) How they are unfair to the slaves.
(d) How they restrain the slaves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Nat remember during Gray's speech to the court?

3. Who is Miss Maria Pope?

4. According to Gray, what excuse did Nat give for his participation in the rebellion?

5. What does Nat have a dream about while In the courtroom?

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