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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Putnam and MIss Maria punish Hark?
(a) By locking him in the root cellar.
(b) By making him climb a tree.
(c) By whipping him.
(d) By making him sleep outside.

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

3. What does Gray think should have led the band of slaves to greater efforts?
(a) Desperation.
(b) Hope.
(c) Anger.
(d) Fear.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the last slave captured who participated in the rebellion?

2. When did Nat first begin to plan his rebellion?

3. Nat's mind "finally" became what, according to Gray?

4. While in church with Hark, Nat makes plans to gather with other blacks where?

5. How does Gray say the "band" resisted when the white people finally caught up to them?

(see the answer key)

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