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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. Why is Washington overcome with anxiety in Part III, Chapter 5?
(a) He thinks he sees Titch.
(b) Medwin tells him Erasmus has come looking for him.
(c) Medwin tells him a white man has been around asking about him.
(d) He thinks he sees Edgar Farrow.

2. What does Washington do after Philip has fallen asleep some nights?
(a) Draw sketches of him.
(b) Steal money from him.
(c) Put insects in his pillowcase.
(d) Write stories about him.

3. Where does Willard tell Washington that he last saw Titch?
(a) Australia.
(b) Liverpool.
(c) Norfolk.
(d) Cape Town.

4. In the beginning of Chapter 3, what age and condition is Washington Black in?
(a) He is 40 and dying.
(b) He is 18 and a Freeman.
(c) He is 30 and a slave.
(d) He is 25 and a fugitive.

5. What does Mrs. Wilde want to know from Washington when he and Tanna go to visit her?
(a) What kind of relationship he had with Titch.
(b) What had really happened to Philip.
(c) What happened when her husband died.
(d) How he had felt about Erasmus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only slave that speaks to Washington during the labor they do for Titch in Chapter 8?

2. How had Washington gotten his last injury before the burns?

3. What is the title of Part II of the novel?

4. Where is Willard seriously injured by Washington?

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

(see the answer key)

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