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Quiz for Document 3–3: Testimony from Virginia Court Records, 1681

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What detail about the encounter between Katherine Watkins and John Long appeared in all witness accounts except for that of Watkins herself?

Watkins’s husband was a Quaker and pacifist.

Watkins suggested that she was raped.

Watkins and Long had sex.

Long was black and a slave.

2. How did the witnesses characterize Watkins’s interactions with the slave men?

They described her as very friendly and even casually drinking with them.

They said she was very standoffish around the slaves.

They described her as formal and polite but not friendly with the slave men.

They said that she was friendly with free black men but not with slaves.

3. According to the court records, who were the witnesses who were called to testify?

The slaves involved in the incident

County magistrates and officials

Watkins’s husband and family

Watkins’s white neighbors