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Quiz for Document 13–4: The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Why did Turner think that he was destined for greatness?

As a slave he had mastered several trades and proved very skilled.

He had a talent for rhetoric and revolutionary oratory.

His connections with white abolitionists made him an ideal revolutionary.

His parents and he himself believed him a prophet since his childhood.

2. Why did Turner’s childhood master think he would not be a good slave?

He was too intelligent and his mind too restless.

He was very rebellious as a child.

He refused to obey the Bible.

He had been influenced by an abolitionist’s teachings.

3. Which of the following was a miraculous sign Turner experienced that he saw as a sign that he should lead the insurrection?

The ability to speak in tongues

His master struck down by a mysterious illness

Drops of blood on an ear of corn

A plague that destroyed the plantation’s crops