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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What three adjectives does Gray use to describe Nat Turner's mind?
(a) Dark, bewildered, and overwrought.
(b) Distraught, feverish, and plotting.
(c) Excited, devious, and mischievous.
(d) Evil, thoughtless, and cruel.

2. What book did Nat steal from the Turner library?
(a) His master's Bible.
(b) The plantation's record book.
(c) The Life and Death of Mr. Badman.
(d) A book of maps of the northern states.

3. Gray quotes a study by Professor Enoch Mebane that says:
(a) Negroes need to be handled like wild animals.
(b) Negroes are intellectually deficient.
(c) While slavery exists, rebellions are bound to happen.
(d) The Negro is a biologically inferior species.

4. Who does Nat identify as a white man who was "unconditionally monstrous"?
(a) Mr. Whitehead.
(b) Thomas Moore.
(c) Nathaniel Francis.
(d) Reverend Eppes.

5. When Gray questions Nat, does Nat say he feels any remorse over the killings?
(a) At little.
(b) None at all.
(c) He'd like to go back in time and stop himself.
(d) A lot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nat orders that his recruits do what when he arrives?

2. Nat describes black slaves as being docile, yet filled with ______.

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

4. What Psalm does Nat tell Miss Margaret is his favorite?

5. Who did Nat confide his plans for the insurrection to?

(see the answer key)

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