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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weapon does Nat carry?
(a) A sword.
(b) A shotgun.
(c) A bow and arrow.
(d) A knife.

2. On what date was Nat captured?
(a) October 29, 1831.
(b) October 30, 1831.
(c) November 1, 1831.
(d) October 31, 1831.

3. Who is Miss Maria Pope?
(a) The closest neighbor to the Travis home.
(b) Joseph Travis's half-sister.
(c) Mrs. Travis's half-sister.
(d) Joseph Travis's aunt.

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

5. What does Gray think should have led the band of slaves to greater efforts?
(a) Desperation.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hope.

6. Nat describes black slaves as being docile, yet filled with ______.
(a) Fear .
(b) Revenge.
(c) Fury.
(d) Pain.

7. Who did Nat confide his plans for the insurrection to?
(a) Twelve other slaves.
(b) Eighteen slaves.
(c) Five other slaves.
(d) A few other slaves.

8. Hank claimed to be able to tell good white people from bad by:
(a) How loudly they spoke.
(b) The look in their eyes.
(c) What they said.
(d) Their smell.

9. How does Nat encounter Jeremiah Cobb the first time?
(a) Cobb stops by to visit Joseph Travis.
(b) Cobb requests water from the Travis well.
(c) Cobb is considering buying Nat.
(d) Cobb needs repairs to his dogcart.

10. What happened to Hark's wife and son?
(a) They were sold to Mississippi.
(b) They escaped.
(c) They died.
(d) They moved to another plantation.

11. According to Gray's "Introduction" people in the Southampton area were __________.:
(a) "Harbored sinister suspicions" regarding future uprisings.
(b) "Afraid for their lives" from the slaves.
(c) "Greatly excited" about the uprising.
(d) "Very worried" about the insurrection.

12. What is Nat's execution date?
(a) November 12th.
(b) Thanksgiving Day.
(c) November 1st.
(d) November 11th.

13. In Part 1, how does Gray refer to Nat?
(a) As animate chattel.
(b) As a victim.
(c) As a man among men.
(d) As a thing.

14. What was Nat's rebellion not motivated by?
(a) Revenge or sudden anger.
(b) Confusion or hopelessness.
(c) Frustration or desperation.
(d) Anger or hate.

15. What does Gray refer to the insurgent slaves as?
(a) A "ravaging band of murderers."
(b) "Heartless heathens set upon vengeance."
(c) The "ebony slaughterers."
(d) A "band of ferocious miscreants."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gray state that Nat's confessions demonstrate about the laws?

2. Who is the last slave captured who participated in the rebellion?

3. Where is Nat found to be hiding?

4. Why does Gray say he published the Confessions?

5. What is an insurrection?

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