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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the last year of the war, what are Equiano and Pascal doing?
(a) They are on a ship that is blockading the French for most of the year.
(b) Pascal is cleaning the decks because he has been demoted and Equiano helps him.
(c) They are on Montserrat.
(d) They are stuck on the Isle of Wight until the end of the war.

2. How are Eboe children named?
(a) Every son is named after his father.
(b) Based on something that happened around the time of their birth.
(c) The Embrenche name all the children.
(d) A name is drawn from a hat.

3. What kind of work do most Eboe people do?
(a) Diamond mining.
(b) Factory work.
(c) Farming.
(d) They are servants for rich white settlers from England.

4. What does Equiano's first name, Olaudah, mean?
(a) Slave.
(b) Fortunate, or having a loud voice.
(c) Scar on the forehead.
(d) Village elder.

5. How does Equiano describe the living conditions of most slaves in the West Indies?
(a) Not any worse than anywhere else.
(b) Filthy and unhealthy.
(c) Better than anywhere else Equiano has been, because the weather is so nice and the slaves are allowed to spend Saturdays on the beaches.
(d) About the same as the living conditions of the slave owners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of slave auctions does Equiano mention as being particularly upsetting?

2. What does Equiano expect to do after the war?

3. Which of the following is a problem Equiano sees in the West Indies?

4. What work does Equiano do at first for his second owner in the West Indies?

5. What does Equiano say that Biblical scholars have said about Africans?

(see the answer key)

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