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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 222 - 277).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Titch ask Washington to do in Part II, Chapter 4, that shocks him?
(a) To go back to Faith Plantation.
(b) To turn himself in.
(c) To disguise himself as a woman.
(d) To join the other runaway slaves on their way to freedom.

2. What labor is Washington surprised to see Erasmus working at in Chapter 8?
(a) Stitching his own wound.
(b) Ironing his own shirts.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Cleaning out his chamber pot.

3. What was missing from Washington's first experiment that he remedies in his second experiment in Part III, Chapter 10?
(a) Cold.
(b) Water.
(c) Light.
(d) Heat.

4. What is one of the specimens Washington brings back from the dive?
(a) An octopus.
(b) A tiny snail.
(c) An electric eel.
(d) A nematode.

5. What does Titch tell Washington about the afterlife in Chapter 10?
(a) That he must be careful to be good so he will not go to hell.
(b) That he can look forward to going to heaven.
(c) That there is nothingness after we die.
(d) That Titch thinks he will see his own father in the afterlife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Wilde want to know from Washington when he and Tanna go to visit her?

2. What kind of dish is Washington eating when a stranger startles him by sitting next to him at a restaurant in Part III, Chapter 10?

3. What does James Wilde say children know of beauty in Part II, Chapter 5?

4. How does Titch react to the news Philip brings him and Erasmus?

5. What does Washington's dinner companion in Part III, Chapter 10, say he encountered in an American town a short while earlier?

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