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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 restrain the slaves.
(b) How they protect the white slaveholders.
(c) How they are unfair to the slaves.
(d) How they help locate runaway slaves.

2. How does Gray refer to himself in the introduction?
(a) Your dutiful recorder.
(b) Your impartial ear.
(c) Your respectful author.
(d) Your obedient servant.

3. Who is the last slave captured who participated in the rebellion?
(a) Hark.
(b) Nelson.
(c) Sam.
(d) Nat.

4. Which Biblical prophet did Nat feel "spoke" to him most clearly about the rebellion?
(a) Ezekiel.
(b) Noah.
(c) Moses.
(d) Abraham.

5. Who finds Nat and captures him?
(a) Benjamin Armstrong.
(b) Benjamin Phipps.
(c) Benjamin Pepper.
(d) Benjamin Phelps.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the slaves escaped the insurrection without punishment?

2. Nat tells Gray of an event that "laid the groundwork" for his later actions, including the insurrection. What was that event?

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

4. Gray quotes a study by Professor Enoch Mebane that says:

5. On what date was Nat captured?

(see the answer key)

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