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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Nat approaches the age of thirty, what does he notice about the area in which he lives?
(a) A bit of prosperity is returning.
(b) His master is getting meaner.
(c) His fellow slaves are much more miserable.
(d) The drought is destroying everything.

2. Who eventually catches Nat with the stolen book?
(a) Samuel Turner.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Little Morning.
(d) Nat's mother.

3. Moore's farm is next to whose?
(a) Mr. Pemberton's.
(b) Reverend Eppes.
(c) Joseph Travis.
(d) Major Thomas Ridley.

4. On Marse Samuel's plantation, how were the slaves awoken in the morning?
(a) By the foreman.
(b) By a triangle being rung at the Big House.
(c) By Nat running through the slave cabins waking everyone.
(d) By Abraham's trumpet call.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the two oldest of Nat's "inmost four"?

2. What does Gray feel that Nat's rebellion will further the cause of?

3. Who almost discovers Nat reading right after he steals the book?

4. Why do Marse Sam and the traveling salesman go out to the veranda?

5. In Part 3, how many Negroes did Gray say there were in Southampton County?

(see the answer key)

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