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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the English win the battle at Gibraltar, some French ships go aground. What happens to them?
(a) They are taken apart and the lumber is loaded on the English ships to take to the West Indies to sell.
(b) They are towed by the English.
(c) The boys who work on the ships are stranded on the Rock of Gibraltar, where they create their own society.
(d) They are blown up.

2. While he's in Philadelphia, who tells Equiano that he won't be a slave long?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Mrs. Thomas.
(c) Mrs. Davis.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

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

4. How does Equiano get the first mate to teach him navigation?
(a) Equiano promises to do the first mate's job for him if he will teach him.
(b) Equiano threatens the first mate.
(c) Equiano pays the first mate.
(d) Equiano becomes really good friends with the first mate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Equiano want to learn navigation?

2. Why do Eboe merchants kiss the food they are offering for sale?

3. When he renames Equiano, who is Pascal naming Equiano after?

4. Why does Captain Farmer want Equiano to work for him?

5. Where does the slave ship land?

(see the answer key)

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