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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 Nat remember during Gray's speech to the court?
(a) A song Miss Margaret wrote.
(b) A stern lecture from his master.
(c) The twenty-third Psalm.
(d) Hearing God order him to kill.

2. What does T. R. Gray mean by "this population"?
(a) Shopkeepers.
(b) Slave owners.
(c) Slaves.
(d) White people.

3. Cobb uses a word to describe the children of slaves. What is that word?
(a) Babies.
(b) Pickaninnies.
(c) Ankle biters.
(d) Terrormongers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gray state that Nat's confessions demonstrate about the laws?

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

3. 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?

4. What is the name of the town Nat can see from his jail cell window?

5. Who does Trezevant compare Nat to?

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