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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is camphene?
(a) Alcohol mixed with gasoline.
(b) Gunpowder mixed with sulphur
(c) Turpentine mixed with grain alcohol.
(d) Grain alcohol mixed with oil..

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

4. What does Nat do for the first time the Saturday he and Hark are at market?
(a) Preaches a sermon.
(b) Swear at a white man.
(c) Makes love to a girl.
(d) Gain some money toward his freedom.

5. Benjamin stated that he, too, would like to do away with slavery. What did he say might take the places of the slaves?
(a) Hired help.
(b) Machines.
(c) Prisoners.
(d) Workers from another country.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nat hide the stolen book immediately after taking it?

2. Who was Nat's defense lawyer?

3. What does Nat compare slaves to, while he watches them work in the cornfields as a child?

4. Moore's farm is next to whose?

5. How did Benjamin die?

(see the answer key)

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