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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On Marse Samuel's plantation, how were the slaves awoken in the morning?
(a) By the foreman.
(b) By a triangle being rung at the Big House.
(c) By Nat running through the slave cabins waking everyone.
(d) By Abraham's trumpet call.

3. Where does Nat hide the stolen book immediately after taking it?
(a) Under a loose plank in the smokehouse floor.
(b) Beneath some hay in the stables.
(c) Beneath the house.
(d) Under his mattress on the floor.

4. How does Gray say Nat will be punished?
(a) A firing squad.
(b) Being tarred and feathered.
(c) The gallows.
(d) The guillotine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, how does Gray refer to Nat?

2. Who was Nat's owner when Nat was about twelve?

3. What three adjectives does Gray use to describe Nat Turner's mind?

4. What is the nickname T. R. Gray gives to Nat in the "To the Public" section of the book?

5. What reason does Gray give in his introduction for publishing Nat's confessions?

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