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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does it happen that the French attack the English on the way back across the Atlantic?
(a) The English mistake the French fleet for other English ships.
(b) The French intentionally try to disguise themselves as English ships.
(c) The Americans send a telegram to the French to tell them where the British are.
(d) Native Americans on the French ship can hear the English ships coming.

2. What does Equiano see at Brimstone Hill?
(a) Escaped slaves.
(b) Pools of boiling water.
(c) A military cemetery.
(d) Meteorites.

3. When he is taken on board the slave ship, what does Equiano fear?
(a) That he will have to fight other young boys on shipboard.
(b) That he will be eaten by the white people.
(c) That he will fall overboard.
(d) That he will be eaten by sharks.

4. Which statement best describes the Eboe's living arrangements?
(a) Women and children live indoors, but men sleep outside in hammocks.
(b) Every married couple has their own house, but single people and children all live in one big dormitory.
(c) Men and women have separate living quarters.
(d) Men and women live separately except for the first three years they are married.

5. Equiano sees a slave whose leg has been cut off in the West Indies. Why was the slave's leg amputated?
(a) He was injured in a shipwreck and there was no other way to get him out of the wreck.
(b) As punishment for trying to run away.
(c) Because he had gangrene.
(d) As punishment for refusing to work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is Equiano allowed to do after the English win the battle?

2. After the war is over, where do Pascal and Equiano go?

3. What European characteristic does Equiano say helps prove that Europeans and Africans are related?

4. In Chapter 4, which two people does Equiano expect to be reunited with?

5. When Equiano is enslaved to a chief, what kind of shop does he work in?

(see the answer key)

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