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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What city does the fleet return to?
(a) Marseilles.
(b) Paris.
(c) Portsmouth.
(d) London.

3. What does Equiano expect to do after the war?
(a) Return to Africa and find his parents.
(b) Purchase his freedom and get an education.
(c) Continue working with Pascal.
(d) Attempt to get an officer's commission in the navy.

4. What do the Eboe mostly drink?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Beer.
(c) Palm wine.
(d) Water.

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

6. When Equiano is enslaved to a chief, what kind of shop does he work in?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A blacksmith's shop.
(c) A goldsmith's shop.
(d) A bakery.

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

8. Why do Pascal and Equiano go to London after the fleet returns?
(a) To find men they can force to join the navy to replace the men who were killed in the battle.
(b) To buy new clothes.
(c) To see a play at the Globe Theater.
(d) To relax.

9. When Equiano is sick in London, what treatment does the doctor recommend that Equiano refuses?
(a) Surgery to remove a tumor.
(b) Amputation of his left leg.
(c) Antibiotics.
(d) Blood transfusion.

10. What new name does Pascal give Equiano?
(a) Gustavus Vasa.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Richard Baker.
(d) Herman Melville.

11. At the beginning of Chapter 1, how does Equiano say God has treated him?
(a) Very cruelly, because he allowed him to be made a slave.
(b) Equiano says God had nothing to do with the way his life has gone.
(c) Very well, with great favor.
(d) Very badly, making him suffer for no good reason.

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

13. Which of the following does Equiano say helps prove that Africans are related to Europeans?
(a) The Eboe had a legend about how white men came from the north and intermarried with the Eboe.
(b) The Eboe told a legend about how they used to live in a cold place in the north.
(c) Europeans and Africans eat the same foods.
(d) African culture and religious practices resemble the practices of Jews described in the Old Testament.

14. What European characteristic does Equiano say helps prove that Europeans and Africans are related?
(a) That some Europeans get darker skinned when they are exposed to sun.
(b) That some Europeans really like the Eboe way of life.
(c) That Europeans share the same religious beliefs as Africans.
(d) That Europeans share the same attitudes toward adultery as Africans.

15. How does Equiano say the Eboe punish adultery?
(a) Adultery is not punished by the Eboe at all.
(b) Only men are punished for adultery, usually with death.
(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. What does Equiano think is "magic" on the slave ships?

2. How does Equiano's business go in Philadelphia?

3. Why does Equiano believe he has already bought his way out of slavery in Chapter 4?

4. How does Equiano get the first mate to teach him navigation?

5. Who spreads a lie about Equiano?

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