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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Equiano think slaveholders in the West Indies are hypocrites?
(a) Because they say they oppose slavery.
(b) Because they say they value education, but they do not allow their slaves to learn to read and write.
(c) Because they say they are Christians but they never go to church.
(d) Because they are so cruel to their slaves but they claim to be Christians.

2. What city does the fleet return to?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Portsmouth.

3. At the end of his long overland journey in Africa, where does Equiano arrive?
(a) Johannesburg, South Africa.
(b) Cairo, Egypt.
(c) The eastern sea coast.
(d) The western sea coast.

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

5. What does Equiano's second West Indies owner promise to do for him later?
(a) Send him to England to work in an office there.
(b) Send him to Philadelphia and make him a clerk.
(c) Set him free at the age of 21.
(d) Let him join the navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the battle in the ocean between the French and the English end?

2. What skill of Equiano's makes his second West Indies owner think that Equiano might make a good clerk?

3. Who is Equiano sold to by the owner who first took him to the West Indies?

4. Why does Equiano believe he has already bought his way out of slavery in Chapter 4?

5. What do the Eboe believe about the afterlife?

(see the answer key)

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