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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Eboe dress?
(a) The men wear pants and white shirts, and the women wear long, colorful dresses.
(b) Wealthier Eboe people wear elaborate costumes made of feathers, precious gems, and animal skin, but poor Eboe are nearly naked.
(c) Both men and women wrap a single piece of blue fabric around their bodies.
(d) They go naked, except for a small loin cloth.

2. Which is the best description of Equiano's injuries in the battle at Gibraltar?
(a) He is unhurt.
(b) He has permanently lost his hearing.
(c) He is in very serious condition, with wounds in his head and chest.
(d) He has a small flesh wound on his forehead.

3. Which of the following is a problem Equiano sees in the West Indies?
(a) The docks are in very poor condition.
(b) The white men seem to think it's acceptable to rape female slaves.
(c) The female slaves are eager to have children with the white slave owners.
(d) None of the slaves have been converted to Christianity.

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

5. How do Equiano's shipmates feel about Pascal selling him?
(a) They think it is just as well, because Pascal was not a good master and Equiano will be better off out of the navy.
(b) They think it is very unfair.
(c) They don't care one way or the other.
(d) They are happy, because Equiano always won fights against them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What merchandise do two white men steal from Equiano?

2. How does the cruelty of the slaveholders affect Equiano's attitude toward Christianity?

3. Which of the following does Equiano say helps prove that Africans are related to Europeans?

4. What new things does Equiano see in England that amaze him?

5. How do Eboe people acquire slaves?

(see the answer key)

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