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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What moniker did Gray assign to Nat Turner?
(a) The "great Bandit."
(b) The "elusive Fox."
(c) The "unrepentant runaway."
(d) The "ferocious captive."

3. Gray initially blames Nat's "failure" on the slaves' what?
(a) Getting scared .
(b) Not knowing how to handle guns.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Running off.

4. When Gray speaks of understanding Nat's mind, what does he say about it?
(a) Nat had a mental condition and couldn't understand what he was doing.
(b) Nat was trying to grapple with things beyond his mind's reach.
(c) Nat's mind snapped at the thought of being sold again.
(d) Nat had sociopathic tendencies and would have killed more people if he hadn't been caught.

5. What does Gray tell Nat about the Bible, when he cannot bring one to Nat?
(a) It is not ment for Nat.
(b) It is better left alone.
(c) It is evil.
(d) It is a waste of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gray think should have led the band of slaves to greater efforts?

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

3. Nat remembers a visitor to the Turner household when he was about twelve. What does Nat remember the visitor describing?

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

5. After creating his little "tabernacle" in the woods at Moore's farm, what does Nat occasionally do?

(see the answer key)

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