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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the battle at Gibraltar, what happens to Pascal?
(a) He is demoted to a common soldier for cowardice during the battle.
(b) He converts to Christianity and decides to free Equiano.
(c) He recovers and goes back on active duty.
(d) He dies from his wounds.

2. What kind of work do most Eboe people do?
(a) They are servants for rich white settlers from England.
(b) Factory work.
(c) Diamond mining.
(d) Farming.

3. What do the Eboe mostly drink?
(a) Beer.
(b) Palm wine.
(c) Water.
(d) Coffee.

4. What two skills is Equiano taught as a child?
(a) Tracking deer and killing birds.
(b) Herbal healing and banjo playing.
(c) Agriculture and warfare.
(d) Snake charming and bartering.

5. How do Eboe people acquire slaves?
(a) They take slaves from other groups thorugh war or trade.
(b) Children who have darker skin than others are marked for slavery at birth.
(c) People sell their own children to be slaves.
(d) Any boy who refuses to be circumcised is made a slave.

Short Answer Questions

1. When he is taken on board the slave ship, what does Equiano fear?

2. How does the cruelty of the slaveholders affect Equiano's attitude toward Christianity?

3. Why does Equiano fight with other boys on board ship after he is bought by Pascal?

4. Why does Equiano think that he and Pascal spend a whole year waiting for orders on the Isle of Wight?

5. During the last year of the war, what are Equiano and Pascal doing?

(see the answer key)

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