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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What upcoming event does Nat take as his new "sign" to start his insurrection?
(a) A slave trader coming through town with over 100 slaves.
(b) A visit from a famous minister and teacher.
(c) A Baptist revival camp meeting.
(d) The mill in town closing down.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Nat says his final prayer before beginning the insurrection, what does he do?

2. How many steps are in Nat's plan to kill the white people?

3. How did Benjamin die?

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

5. Which of Nat's followers was deaf?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 2, Nat talks about Samuel Turner's tampering with a slave's destiny by educating him. Immediately afterward, he talks about what his life might have been like if he had not been the subject of Marse Samuel's "experiment." What do you think of this description of his might-have-been life? Is it something that appeals to him?

2. In Part 2, Nat tells of Little Morning spying on him as a jealous response to the realization that Nat could read. This is the first time Nat tells of a negative reaction to his reading and learning. Why might Little Morning have reacted like this?

3. Nat's vision in Part 3 involves a white angel and a black angel fighting. The black angel wins, casting the white angel down. When Nat questions this vision, he says he received no answer at all "save the answer in my brain." What did he interpret this vision as, and why?

4. When Nat preaches in town in Part 3, he does not use proper English. Why do you think he does that?

5. In Part 1, Marse Samuel speaks to Dr. Ballard about the existence of slavery in the South. He says "it is evil to keep these people in bondage, yet they cannot be freed. They must be educated!" Samuel's brother Benjamin does not agree with him and argues the other point. Who makes the better argument?

6. In Part 2, Nat describes two events: "one causing me the bitterest anguish, the other premonitions of joy." What were these two events, and why might they have been told together?

7. In Part 2, when Nat baptizes Willis, he feels he's on the brink of great things, that great possibilities in his life are opening up. Yet soon after, his life changes as the slaves and eventually the plantation, including him, are sold. Is it possible that this had an effect on Nat's eventual decision to kill the whites? Why?

8. In Part 3 when Nat goes on his five-day fast, he begs the Lord to give him a sign and believed the Lord answered his request. What does Nat describe as being the answer to his request of the Lord?

9. When Nat imagines his grandmother's thoughts as a captured Coromantee slave girl, he describes Marse Samuel's smile as looking to her like "fiendish smirk." Why would he would describe the kindest master he had in this way?

10. After Nat's fast in Part 3, he said there were two events that helped him interpret his vision of the fighting angels as a mandate to kill whites. What were those two events?

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