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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gray quotes a study by Professor Enoch Mebane that says:
(a) Negroes are intellectually deficient.
(b) The Negro is a biologically inferior species.
(c) Negroes need to be handled like wild animals.
(d) While slavery exists, rebellions are bound to happen.

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

3. What does Nat wonder about after sentencing?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Escaping.
(c) Stealing a Bible.
(d) Saving Hark.

4. What does Gray attribute the failure of the rebellion to?
(a) Astute observations on the part of the white slaveholders.
(b) The lack of intelligence of the slaves.
(c) Close monitoring of all slave activities.
(d) The moral deficiency of the Negro character.

5. How does Nat encounter Jeremiah Cobb the first time?
(a) Cobb requests water from the Travis well.
(b) Cobb stops by to visit Joseph Travis.
(c) Cobb needs repairs to his dogcart.
(d) Cobb is considering buying Nat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nat remember during Gray's speech to the court?

2. How many of the slaves escaped the insurrection without punishment?

3. In the Introduction, Gray hopes that the description of Nat's rebellion will demonstrate policy regarding what?

4. What does Nat have a dream about while In the courtroom?

5. What does T. R. Gray mean by "this population"?

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