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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Francis forces Will and Sam to fight each other.
(d) A fight breaks out at the brothel and the Sheriff has to come.

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

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

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

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

6. According to a preacher that Nat heard, he that increaseth knowledge increaseth ________.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Religion.
(d) Education.

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

8. What was the first stop for the initial band of men on the insurrection?
(a) Benjamin Turner's homestead.
(b) Jeremiah Cobb's plantation.
(c) Joseph Travis's farm.
(d) The Barnett plantation.

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

10. What does Nat remember seeing after getting to Major Ridley's place?
(a) The butler running up the street to sound the alarm.
(b) Negroes running away from the farm.
(c) Major Ridley coming out to make peace with Nat.
(d) Negroes with rifles and muskets.

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

12. After Benjamin died, who inherited the plantation?
(a) Miss Nell.
(b) Samuel Turner.
(c) Lewis Turner.
(d) Miss Elizabeth.

13. What does Nat do for the first time the Saturday he and Hark are at market?
(a) Preaches a sermon.
(b) Makes love to a girl.
(c) Swear at a white man.
(d) Gain some money toward his freedom.

14. What happens at Persons' millpond after Nat had been teaching Bible class for a while?
(a) Nat reveals his plans to Hark.
(b) Nat baptizes Thomas Moore.
(c) Nat preaches a sermon.
(d) Nat baptizes Ethelred Brantley.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Nat orders that his recruits do what when he arrives?

3. What was the companion book to the one Nat stole?

4. After creating his little "tabernacle" in the woods at Moore's farm, what does Nat occasionally do?

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

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