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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Marse Samuel's "grander plans" for Nat?
(a) An apprenticeship in carpentry.
(b) An apprenticeship in blacksmithing.
(c) Becoming head butler.
(d) Going to secondary school.

2. While driving Miss Margaret to the Vaughans' farm, what dying animal do she and Nat see?
(a) A turtle.
(b) A cow.
(c) A buzzard.
(d) A raccoon.

3. What does the traveling salesman ask Nat to spell?
(a) Columbine.
(b) Daffodil.
(c) Rose.
(d) Petunia.

4. Shortly after the trial, what happens to Nate?
(a) He gets a Bible.
(b) He gets a premonition.
(c) He gets a warning.
(d) He gets a fever.

5. What was Nat's mother's name?
(a) Laura.
(b) Lou-Ann.
(c) Lily.
(d) Louise.

6. Why do Marse Sam and the traveling salesman go out to the veranda?
(a) To buy seeds for next year's plantings.
(b) To decide which plow to buy.
(c) To make out a requisition.
(d) To calculate how much wood from the mill the salesman can sell.

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

8. Where does Nat hide the stolen book immediately after taking it?
(a) Beneath some hay in the stables.
(b) Under a loose plank in the smokehouse floor.
(c) Under his mattress on the floor.
(d) Beneath the house.

9. When Gray questions Nat, does Nat say he feels any remorse over the killings?
(a) At little.
(b) A lot.
(c) None at all.
(d) He'd like to go back in time and stop himself.

10. What does Nat find in Mrs. Whitehead's library that furthers his plans for a slave uprising?
(a) A map of Southampton County.
(b) A book about famous murderers.
(c) A Bible lying open to Judges 15:14, where Sampson kills a thousand men.
(d) A sharp knife.

11. How did Little Morning determine which jar held molasses?
(a) By asking her mother.
(b) By reading the label on the jar.
(c) By dipping a finger inside.
(d) By asking Nat.

12. Who eventually catches Nat with the stolen book?
(a) Little Morning.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Samuel Turner.
(d) Nat's mother.

13. 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.

14. What year did Nat's grandmother die?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1783.
(c) 1780.
(d) 1782.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nat see as a good omen right before he returns to the farm from his "sanctuary" after revealing his plans to his core group of followers?

2. What term does Nat use to describe Hark's marriage to Tiny?

3. How many people were killed at the first location in the insurrection?

4. In Part 2, what does Nat say is the most futile thing a man can do?

5. What does Nat do for the first time the Saturday he and Hark are at market?

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