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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nat say to Gray when Gray reads back the account of the killings?
(a) "Let me explain!"
(b) "Enough already!"
(c) "That's not true!"
(d) "Stop! We done it!"

2. Nat's mother considers the household servants to be what?
(a) Quality.
(b) Too smart for their own good.
(c) Uppity.
(d) Hopeless.

3. Who was Nat's owner when Nat was about twelve?
(a) Samuel Turner.
(b) He was free when he was twelve.
(c) Jeremiah Cobb.
(d) Mrs. Turner.

4. When Hark and Nat go to town on market day, what happens?
(a) Nat finds a runaway slave hiding beneath the general store's cellar door.
(b) An abolitionist preacher starts preaching.
(c) A fight breaks out at the brothel and the Sheriff has to come.
(d) Francis forces Will and Sam to fight each other.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What three adjectives does Gray use to describe Nat Turner's mind?

3. A nearby college is named several times in the book. What is that college?

4. What was Hark best-known for at the Travis farm?

5. When Nat preaches after Will and Sam's fight, how does he talk to the slaves that gather around him?

(see the answer key)

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