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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new name does Pascal give Equiano?
(a) Herman Melville.
(b) Gustavus Vasa.
(c) Richard Baker.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

2. How does Pascal keep Equiano on the ship when he is going to collect their naval pay?
(a) Pays his shipmates to tie him up and guard him.
(b) Drugs him.
(c) Tricks him by telling them they aren't there yet.
(d) Threatens him with physical violence.

3. How does Equiano describe the living conditions of most slaves in the West Indies?
(a) Better than anywhere else Equiano has been, because the weather is so nice and the slaves are allowed to spend Saturdays on the beaches.
(b) Not any worse than anywhere else.
(c) About the same as the living conditions of the slave owners.
(d) Filthy and unhealthy.

4. After the English win the battle at Gibraltar, some French ships go aground. What happens to them?
(a) They are taken apart and the lumber is loaded on the English ships to take to the West Indies to sell.
(b) They are blown up.
(c) They are towed by the English.
(d) The boys who work on the ships are stranded on the Rock of Gibraltar, where they create their own society.

5. How do the Eboe dress?
(a) The men wear pants and white shirts, and the women wear long, colorful dresses.
(b) They go naked, except for a small loin cloth.
(c) Wealthier Eboe people wear elaborate costumes made of feathers, precious gems, and animal skin, but poor Eboe are nearly naked.
(d) Both men and women wrap a single piece of blue fabric around their bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Equiano say helps prove that Africans are related to Europeans?

2. Who is Equiano sold to by the owner who first took him to the West Indies?

3. Why does Equiano sail to so many places in the Atlantic?

4. Which of the following does Equiano see in the plantation house, which impress him?

5. What new things does Equiano see in England that amaze him?

(see the answer key)

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