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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens after Equiano complains about the Sierra Leone project?
(a) All the corrupt officials are put in jail.
(b) All the problems get fixed.
(c) Equiano is made a knight by the King.
(d) He loses his job.

2. Why does Hughes tie Equiano up?
(a) He knows Equiano is good at navigation.
(b) He is afraid Equiano will attack him in his sleep.
(c) He wants to sell Equiano back into slavery.
(d) He doesn't like Christians.

3. What does Equiano's experience on Mulgrave's expedition make him worry about?
(a) Religion and the afterlife.
(b) Being kidnapped.
(c) Money.
(d) Frostbite.

4. In Georgia, what does Equiano do that almost gets him flogged?
(a) Beats a slave.
(b) Keeps a light on after 9 p.m.
(c) Curses a ship.
(d) Sells turkeys and bulls.

5. Why does Equiano feel uncomfortable with his shipmates after October 6?
(a) He will not make any money, since all his funds were invested in the turkeys that died.
(b) Everyone blames him for the shipwreck.
(c) No one else on the ship is a Christian, so he has no one to share his happiness with.
(d) His shipmates no longer think he is a good sailor, since he fell overboard.

6. What sight does Equiano find strange in Turkey?
(a) Women wearing veils.
(b) Turkeys roaming the streets freely because they are sacred.
(c) Slaves wearing veils.
(d) Men wearing veils.

7. Why does the English government start an expedition to Sierra Leone?
(a) To return former slaves to Africa.
(b) To increase the slave trade.
(c) To search for gold.
(d) To explore the Amazon.

8. On a quest for a new religion, why does Equiano decide to go to Turkey?
(a) He thinks the Turks are the most Christ-like people he has met.
(b) He wants to convert the Turks to Christianity.
(c) He has decided to become a Muslim.
(d) He plans to go from their to Africa to relearn the religion of the Eboe people.

9. While Equiano is getting everyone off the Nancy and to safety, what are the white crew members doing?
(a) Getting drunk.
(b) Staying on board to "go down with the ship."
(c) Doing whatever Equiano tells them.
(d) Nailing the hatches shut.

10. Why does Equiano not go to England immediately after receiving his freedom?
(a) He feels he has a duty to King and Farmer, so he continues working for them.
(b) He has fallen in love with a girl in Montserrat.
(c) Freed slaves are not allowed in England.
(d) He no longer wants to go to England because he likes Montserrat so much.

11. On the way to Cadiz, when Equiano's ship crashes into the rocks, how does Equiano amaze everyone?
(a) By admitting he caused the wreck by cursing the ship.
(b) By being completely calm.
(c) By steering the ship through the rocks into harbor at New Providence.
(d) By personally carrying every member of the crew ashore.

12. What else has Equiano done since the first edition of his Narrative was published?
(a) Adopted African children.
(b) Gotten married.
(c) Been made a knight by the King of England.
(d) Built a house in Africa.

13. What two reasons does Equiano give for abolishing slavery in the last chapter?
(a) Biology and climate.
(b) Humanity and economics.
(c) Ethos and logos.
(d) Politics and physics.

14. When the crew think they see cannibals, what are they really looking at?
(a) Flamingos.
(b) Themselves, reflected in a mirror that washed ashore.
(c) Pygmies.
(d) Polar bears.

15. What new profession does Equiano learn in England?
(a) Hairdressing.
(b) Printing.
(c) School-teaching.
(d) Tailoring.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Equiano sees King again, what does he find out has happened to King?

2. What makes Equiano attracted to Christianity?

3. How much money does the dying man turn out to have in his fortune?

4. After the rescue team arrives in New Providence and heads to Georgia, what happens to them?

5. What happens to the bulls on Farmer's last voyage?

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