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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Equiano's shipmates feel about Pascal selling him?
(a) They think it is very unfair.
(b) They are happy, because Equiano always won fights against them.
(c) They think it is just as well, because Pascal was not a good master and Equiano will be better off out of the navy.
(d) They don't care one way or the other.

2. Which of the following best describes the way Equiano goes to work for Farmer?
(a) King sells Equiano to Farmer.
(b) Farmer steals Equiano from King.
(c) King agrees to allow Equiano to work for Farmer, but King is still Equiano's owner.
(d) Equiano runs away in order to work for Farmer.

3. How does Equiano get the first mate to teach him navigation?
(a) Equiano promises to do the first mate's job for him if he will teach him.
(b) Equiano threatens the first mate.
(c) Equiano pays the first mate.
(d) Equiano becomes really good friends with the first mate.

4. Why does Equiano think that he and Pascal spend a whole year waiting for orders on the Isle of Wight?
(a) Because Pascal is going to be demoted.
(b) Because the English king died.
(c) Because the British navy is reconsidering the use of slaves on their ships.
(d) Because the Isle of Wight is under quarantine for the Black Plague.

5. After accidentally killing an animal with a pebble, what does Equiano do?
(a) Takes the animal to cook and eat it.
(b) Goes to his father and says "I can not tell a lie, it was I who killed it with my pebble."
(c) Escapes from slavery.
(d) Hides in the shrubs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Equiano spend his time doing on the Isle of Wight?

2. How much money does the dying man turn out to have in his fortune?

3. When Equiano is kidnapped, what do the kidnappers do to keep him quiet?

4. What is the profession of the dying man who Captain Farmer cares for in his illness?

5. After the war is over, where do Pascal and Equiano go?

(see the answer key)

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