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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gray think should have led the band of slaves to greater efforts?
(a) Anger.
(b) Desperation.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hope.

2. What is an insurrection?
(a) A fight.
(b) An uprising.
(c) A peace march.
(d) An agreement.

3. Who gives T. R. Gray permission to talk to Nat in jail?
(a) The preacher.
(b) Nat's jailer.
(c) Jeremiah Cobb.
(d) Nat's master.

4. Southampton is located in what state?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Virginia.
(d) West Virginia.

5. What three adjectives does Gray use to describe Nat Turner's mind?
(a) Dark, bewildered, and overwrought.
(b) Distraught, feverish, and plotting.
(c) Evil, thoughtless, and cruel.
(d) Excited, devious, and mischievous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon does Nat carry?

2. Who finds Nat and captures him?

3. In the introduction, what does Gray state Nat's mind "first became"?

4. Who did Nat confide his plans for the insurrection to?

5. According to Gray, how many slave uprisings had there been in the area prior to Nat Turner's?

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