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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Equiano is sick in London, what treatment does the doctor recommend that Equiano refuses?
(a) Blood transfusion.
(b) Amputation of his left leg.
(c) Antibiotics.
(d) Surgery to remove a tumor.

3. What European characteristic does Equiano say helps prove that Europeans and Africans are related?
(a) That Europeans share the same religious beliefs as Africans.
(b) That Europeans share the same attitudes toward adultery as Africans.
(c) That some Europeans get darker skinned when they are exposed to sun.
(d) That some Europeans really like the Eboe way of life.

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

5. What city is Pascal sent to help in an attack on?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) New York City.
(c) Louisborough, in French Canada.
(d) Mexico City.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Pascal is promoted, what ship is he assigned to?

2. What do the Eboe believe about the afterlife?

3. What do the Eboe mostly drink?

4. What does Equiano think is "magic" on the slave ships?

5. How do the Eboe dress?

(see the answer key)

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