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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about the ship's crew in Part II, Chapter 2?
(a) They are all women.
(b) They are all black men.
(c) They are all one-handed.
(d) They are all orphans.

2. Who is the brother of the ship's captain?
(a) James Madison.
(b) Theo Kinast.
(c) Jonathan Wilde.
(d) Benjamin Kinast.

3. What happens when Titch takes the gauze off of Washington's face in Chapter 9?
(a) It is excruciatingly painful.
(b) Washington gets a terrible infection that almost kills him.
(c) Washington can not feel anything.
(d) Washington can not see anything.

4. What startles Washington about the two brothers on the ship?
(a) They are both disfigured in the same exact way.
(b) They are albinos.
(c) They are ghosts.
(d) They are identical twins.

5. What alarms Washington about the sexton's activities in Part II, Chapter 4?
(a) They are disturbing sexually.
(b) They involve drugs.
(c) They involve illegal things the police would prosecute people for.
(d) They are grotesque in that they involve corpses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What particular aquatic creature is a favorite of Washington's from the volumes he reads in Chapter 10?

2. What does Philip enjoy doing more than almost anything else?

3. Who is the house porter at Faith Plantation?

4. How does Titch react when he witnesses the overseers' brutality towards the slaves?

5. Who summons Big Kit and Washington to the big house on the plantation in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unusual about the crew of the Ava Maria?

2. Why is Washington so taken aback by the ship's captain, Captain Benedikt, and his brother, in Part II, Chapter 2?

3. What does Erasmus and Mrs. Wilde want Titch to do in the wake of Philip's momentous news?

4. What does Big Kit resolve to do to "save" herself and Washington Black when they find out what kind of a man Erasmus Wilde is?

5. What activity do Titch and Washington discover that Farrow is engaged in in Part II, Chapter 4, that is a very risky endeavor?

6. What does Kit give to Washington in Chapter 4 when she realizes he is being summoned to assist Titch, and why does she give it to him?

7. What kind of a reception do Titch and Washington get from the crew of the Ava Maria in Part II, Chapter 2?

8. What is the slaves' first impression of their new master, Erasmus Wilde, in Chapter 1?

9. Where is Big Kit from and how does she hope to get back there someday?

10. When Washington encounters the slaves he formerly worked with as they all embark on Titch's project in Chapter 8, how do the other slaves treat him?

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