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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While traveling from one place to another in Africa, which of the following does Equiano learn?
(a) How to track deer in the forest.
(b) Two African languages different from his own.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) That he is going to be sent to America on a slave ship.

2. What does Pascal do for a living?
(a) Pascal owns a plantation in Virginia.
(b) Pascal is an officer in the British navy.
(c) Pascal owns a goldsmith shop.
(d) Pascal runs a slave ship.

3. How do Equiano's shipmates feel about Pascal selling him?
(a) They are happy, because Equiano always won fights against them.
(b) They don't care one way or the other.
(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 think it is very unfair.

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

5. When Equiano is enslaved to a chief, what kind of shop does he work in?
(a) A goldsmith's shop.
(b) A grocery store.
(c) A blacksmith's shop.
(d) A bakery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Equiano's business go in Philadelphia?

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

3. What animal does Equiano accidentally kill with a pebble?

4. How does Equiano react when he is told he won't be a slave long?

5. What does Equiano see at Brimstone Hill?

(see the answer key)

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