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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Part 2, what does Nat say is the most futile thing a man can do?
(a) Ponder the alternatives.
(b) Learn to read.
(c) Try to run away.
(d) Wish to be free.

3. Who was Nat's owner when Nat was about twelve?
(a) Mrs. Turner.
(b) He was free when he was twelve.
(c) Jeremiah Cobb.
(d) Samuel Turner.

4. Who were the two oldest of Nat's "inmost four"?
(a) Nat and Hark.
(b) Hark and Henry.
(c) Nelson and Henry.
(d) Hark and Nelson.

5. What type of hinges are on the privy door?
(a) Steel.
(b) Wood.
(c) Rubber.
(d) Leather.

6. After dinner, what does Miss Nell do?
(a) Go out to the smokehouse.
(b) Ask that dessert be served on the veranda.
(c) Take a poultice to a sick Negro child in the cabins.
(d) Give the cooks their orders for the next day's meals.

7. Which of Nat's followers was deaf?
(a) Nelson.
(b) Hark.
(c) Nat.
(d) Henry.

8. Nat's mother considers the household servants to be what?
(a) Hopeless.
(b) Uppity.
(c) Too smart for their own good.
(d) Quality.

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

10. How many steps are in Nat's plan to kill the white people?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Nine.

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

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

13. When Hark and Nat go to town on market day, what happens?
(a) Francis forces Will and Sam to fight each other.
(b) A fight breaks out at the brothel and the Sheriff has to come.
(c) Nat finds a runaway slave hiding beneath the general store's cellar door.
(d) An abolitionist preacher starts preaching.

14. Nat's father "ran off" from the Turner household. Why?
(a) Because another slave threatened to kill him.
(b) Because Benjamin Turner hit him.
(c) Because the Underground Railroad came through.
(d) Because he learned about the North Star.

15. What was the first stop for the initial band of men on the insurrection?
(a) Joseph Travis's farm.
(b) Benjamin Turner's homestead.
(c) Jeremiah Cobb's plantation.
(d) The Barnett plantation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens at Persons' millpond after Nat had been teaching Bible class for a while?

2. Why can't Nat carry out the rebellion on the date he originally chose?

3. Benjamin said that saves were as unteachable as a what?

4. When Moore meets Isham on the road, what does Isham do?

5. Benjamin stated that he, too, would like to do away with slavery. What did he say might take the places of the slaves?

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