- On the back of Private Goring's last letter, there's a list of questions and answers that Goring titles "Prince's Catechism."
- The Captain has asked Goring to get more information out of Octavian, just in case an "Adjutant" (a military officer) asks questions about Octavian.
- Octavian doesn't answer most of the questions though, questions like: where he's from, if he fled Boston, where he learned to play the violin, if he has papers stating he's free, where he lived, and if he lived in a house.
- Octavian does, however, answer affirmatively to the question of whether or not he lived outside.
- He's also asked if he lived in a house with family, and this question causes Octavian to look down and reply that he's "'never even dwelt inside [him]self.'"
- Both the Captain and Goring think that Octavian escaped from some tyrant master.
- But Goring doesn't say this to Octavian, though he does tell him that slavery will be gone soon (oh, how wrong he is).
- Then Goring gets seriously Biblical—like fire and brimstone-y, preacher-style—about how God will punish those who have slaves.