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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What weapon does Nat carry?
(a) A sword.
(b) A bow and arrow.
(c) A knife.
(d) A shotgun.

3. What does Gray attribute the failure of the rebellion to?
(a) The moral deficiency of the Negro character.
(b) Close monitoring of all slave activities.
(c) Astute observations on the part of the white slaveholders.
(d) The lack of intelligence of the slaves.

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

5. What is the name of the town Nat can see from his jail cell window?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Richmond.
(c) Fredericksburg.
(d) Jerusalem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Nat's master at the time of the insurrection?

2. In the introduction, what does Gray state Nat's mind "first became"?

3. Who is Gray?

4. In Part One, Nat tells Gray that the Lord told him to confess so that "all nations will know." What was the other reason the Lord gave Nat for confessing?

5. Who does Trezevant compare Nat to?

(see the answer key)

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