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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After the war is over, where do Pascal and Equiano go?
(a) Virginia to visit Equiano's former master, where Pascal purchased him.
(b) Paris.
(c) Montserrat to start a sugar plantation.
(d) London to collect pay from the navy.

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

4. Who does Equiano become friends with after he is purchased by Pascal?
(a) Richard Baker.
(b) Arthur Gordon Pym.
(c) Richard Burton.
(d) Gustavus Vasa.

5. Which of the following does Equiano see in the plantation house, which impress him?
(a) Silver forks and spoons and electric lamps.
(b) A ticking clock and a portrait painting.
(c) A perpetual motion machine.
(d) A fish tank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sign is used to mark an Embrenche?

2. What do the Eboe believe about the afterlife?

3. When Equiano is sold to a merchant in Tinmah, how is he treated?

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

5. While traveling from one place to another in Africa, which of the following does Equiano learn?

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