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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 Pascal keep Equiano on the ship when he is going to collect their naval pay?
(a) Tricks him by telling them they aren't there yet.
(b) Threatens him with physical violence.
(c) Pays his shipmates to tie him up and guard him.
(d) Drugs him.

2. What does "Embrenche" mean?
(a) An outcast.
(b) A slave.
(c) A respected leader of the community.
(d) A good dancer.

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

4. Why does Equiano want to learn navigation?
(a) In case the first mate dies, to avoid the ship being lost.
(b) In case he ever has an opportunity to escape by sailing away.
(c) Knowing navigation will make him more valuable as a slave, so King will sell him to a richer master.
(d) He's interested in astronomy.

5. How does Equiano say the Eboe punish adultery?
(a) Only men are punished for adultery, usually with death.
(b) Adultery is not punished by the Eboe at all.
(c) Adultery is punished by making people wear a scarlet letter "A" on their clothing.
(d) A woman found to have committed adultery could be punished with death or slavery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the Eboe dress?

3. Which of the following is a reason Equiano likes Robert King?

4. How does it happen that the French attack the English on the way back across the Atlantic?

5. At the end of his long overland journey in Africa, where does Equiano arrive?

(see the answer key)

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