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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After five days in the woods with Hark, what happens to Nat?
(a) He decides to run away.
(b) He witnesses a murder.
(c) He gets lost and can't find his way home.
(d) He sees a vision.

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

3. 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?
(a) A new slave joins the group.
(b) The call of an eagle from a nearby tree.
(c) He finds an old sword in the woods.
(d) A king snake sunning itself nearby.

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

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

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

7. Who tries to take over the insurrection from Nat?
(a) Hark.
(b) Sam.
(c) Nelson.
(d) Will.

8. Nat remembers a visitor to the Turner household when he was about twelve. What does Nat remember the visitor describing?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Spring.
(d) Fall.

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

10. From which room did Nat steal a book?
(a) The parlor.
(b) The smoking room.
(c) The library.
(d) Mr. Turner's bedroom.

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

12. After creating his little "tabernacle" in the woods at Moore's farm, what does Nat occasionally do?
(a) Exercise.
(b) Preach.
(c) Fast.
(d) Write letters.

13. What happened when Nat and Willis went to the creek together?
(a) Nat fell in.
(b) A sermon.
(c) A baptism.
(d) A fishing lesson.

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

15. 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) A line of chained slaves being taken to Georgia.
(c) Marse Samuel buying a slave.
(d) A slave being sold at auction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nat took four slaves to be hired out to Vaughan's for two weeks. When Nat met the men at the trace, what happened?

2. How did Benjamin die?

3. On Marse Samuel's plantation, how were the slaves awoken in the morning?

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

5. What was Nat's mother's name?

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