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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Moore meets Isham on the road, what does Isham do?
(a) Asks for medicine for his sick baby.
(b) Asks to rent Nat for the day.
(c) Swears at Moore.
(d) Asks for work.

2. What did Marse Samuel state he couldn't advocate freeing saves without?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Education.
(c) Money to live on.
(d) Paying jobs.

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

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

5. Nat settles on which day of the week to begin his insurrection?
(a) Monday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Saturday .
(d) Sunday.

6. What is a smudge pot used for?
(a) Keeping the house fires lit.
(b) Lighting gentlemen's cigarettes.
(c) Keeping mosquitoes away.
(d) Providing heat on the veranda.

7. Gray initially blames Nat's "failure" on the slaves' what?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Getting scared .
(c) Not knowing how to handle guns.
(d) Running off.

8. After Nat says his final prayer before beginning the insurrection, what does he do?
(a) Decides to fast until the day the uprising begins.
(b) Slaughters a pig as an offering to the Lord.
(c) Sets fire to his tabernacle.
(d) Hides some weapons in the woods.

9. Who almost discovers Nat reading right after he steals the book?
(a) Nat's mother.
(b) Nat's master.
(c) Kitchen.
(d) Abraham.

10. Why can't Nat carry out the rebellion on the date he originally chose?
(a) His master will be out of town on his birthday.
(b) He'll be working at Mrs. Whitehead's on his birthday.
(c) The 4th of July celebrations will be held in town, not outside it.
(d) The Memorial Day picnic will be at the armory lawn.

11. Moore's farm is next to whose?
(a) Reverend Eppes.
(b) Mr. Pemberton's.
(c) Joseph Travis.
(d) Major Thomas Ridley.

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

13. Who ends up killing the first victim in the insurrection?
(a) Nat.
(b) Will.
(c) Sam.
(d) Hark.

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

15. Who were the two oldest of Nat's "inmost four"?
(a) Hark and Henry.
(b) Nelson and Henry.
(c) Hark and Nelson.
(d) Nat and Hark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What upcoming event does Nat take as his new "sign" to start his insurrection?

2. What happens at Persons' millpond after Nat had been teaching Bible class for a while?

3. Who eventually catches Nat with the stolen book?

4. What does Nat remember seeing after getting to Major Ridley's place?

5. What does Nat take as a "sign" from God that he can begin planning his attack?

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