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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was Nat taught to read and write?
(a) To help out the plantation.
(b) As an experiment by his master.
(c) Because his master said it was the right thing to do.
(d) Because all slaves were taught to read and write.

3. What year did Nat's grandmother die?
(a) 1783.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1780.

4. Who tries to take over the insurrection from Nat?
(a) Hark.
(b) Nelson.
(c) Will.
(d) Sam.

5. Who is Gray?
(a) A friend of Nat's .
(b) A friend of Nat's late master.
(c) An attorney.
(d) The Mayor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Nat's rebellion not motivated by?

2. Who does Nat identify as a white man who was "unconditionally monstrous"?

3. Why do Marse Sam and the traveling salesman go out to the veranda?

4. Gray initially blames Nat's "failure" on the slaves' what?

5. Cobb uses a word to describe the children of slaves. What is that word?

(see the answer key)

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