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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Marse Samuel propose to Nat when they rode together to Jerusalem?
(a) That Marse Samuel would put Nat in charge of the mill.
(b) That Marse Samuel would eventually free Nat.
(c) That Marse Samuel would send Nat to secondary school.
(d) That Marse Samuel would find a wife for Nat.

3. What does Nat compare his life as a slave child to?
(a) Yearling mule.
(b) Trained monkey.
(c) Calf.
(d) Colt.

4. What did Miss Nell give Nat one year for Christmas?
(a) A Bible.
(b) A book by Sir Walter Scott.
(c) A copy of The Life and Death of Mr. Badman.
(d) A copy of the Gettysburg Address.

5. What term does Nat use to describe Hark's marriage to Tiny?
(a) Jumped over the broomstick.
(b) Said their vows.
(c) Danced at dawn.
(d) Said three Hail Marys .

6. What type of bird does Nat watch from his hiding place immediately after stealing the book?
(a) Buzzards.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Robins.
(d) Crows.

7. Nat sees something on the way back from Jerusalem that has a big effect on him. What is it?
(a) Marse Samuel selling a slave.
(b) Marse Samuel buying a slave.
(c) A slave being sold at auction.
(d) A line of chained slaves being taken to Georgia.

8. As Nat approaches the age of thirty, what does he notice about the area in which he lives?
(a) A bit of prosperity is returning.
(b) His fellow slaves are much more miserable.
(c) The drought is destroying everything.
(d) His master is getting meaner.

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

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

11. What was Hark best-known for at the Travis farm?
(a) Being "strong as an ox".
(b) Getting married.
(c) Running away.
(d) Being able to read.

12. What type of hinges are on the privy door?
(a) Steel.
(b) Rubber.
(c) Wood.
(d) Leather.

13. What book did Nat steal from the Turner library?
(a) The plantation's record book.
(b) His master's Bible.
(c) A book of maps of the northern states.
(d) The Life and Death of Mr. Badman.

14. What was the companion book to the one Nat stole?
(a) Wuthering Heights.
(b) Grace Abounding.
(c) Letters of John Adams.
(d) The Life and Death of Mr. Goodman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nat see in the Northern lady's eyes at the beginning of Part 3 that ignited his hatred?

2. What happened when Nat and Willis went to the creek together?

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

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

5. While driving Miss Margaret to the Vaughans' farm, what dying animal do she and Nat see?

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