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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After dinner, what does Miss Nell do?
(a) Ask that dessert be served on the veranda.
(b) Go out to the smokehouse.
(c) Take a poultice to a sick Negro child in the cabins.
(d) Give the cooks their orders for the next day's meals.

2. Throughout the book, Nat displays disdain for other slaves who do what?
(a) Put on airs and pretend they're better than the slaves around them.
(b) Debase themselves with bowing and scraping to their white masters.
(c) Decide to run away even though they have no education, money, or even a plan.
(d) Are stupid enough to defy their owners.

3. Who was Nat's defense lawyer?
(a) W. C. Parker.
(b) J. Cobb.
(c) J. Trezevant.
(d) W. Wilson.

4. Who is the one person Nat wished to kill, whom he missed?
(a) Benjamin Turner.
(b) Nathaniel Francis.
(c) Jeremiah Cobb.
(d) Joel Westbrook.

5. Turner says he submits Nat's "own account of the conspiracy" to the public ____________.
(a) "For posterity."
(b) "Without comment."
(c) "For you to judge."
(d) "As it was dictated to me."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What weapon does Nat carry?

3. What are Nat's primary thoughts focused on throughout the book?

4. Why does Gray say he published the Confessions?

5. In Part 3, Nat compares the slave traders to what?

(see the answer key)

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