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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Equiano's business go in Philadelphia?
(a) He loses money.
(b) He breaks even.
(c) He makes a profit but then loses all his money gambling.
(d) He makes a good profit.

2. While traveling from one place to another in Africa, which of the following does Equiano learn?
(a) How to track deer in the forest.
(b) That he is going to be sent to America on a slave ship.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Two African languages different from his own.

3. What work does Equiano do at first for his second owner in the West Indies?
(a) No work; he is allowed to go to school instead.
(b) Works in a goldsmith shop.
(c) Teachers Latin to his owner's son.
(d) Rows boats, moving merchandise around the islands.

4. How does Equiano explain the difference in skin color between Europeans and Africans?
(a) Equiano says the difference in skin color is caused by the difference in the environments of Europeans and Africans.
(b) Equiano says that Africans are darker because of the food they eat.
(c) Equiano says that Europeans are lighter skinned because they have weak blood.
(d) Equiano says he has no idea why Africans and Europeans have different skin color.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first merchandise that Equiano buys to start his trading business?

2. Why is Equiano separated from the friend he makes when Equiano is first working for Pascal?

3. What is different about the second slave ship?

4. Who does Equiano become friends with after he is purchased by Pascal?

5. After the battle at Gibraltar, what happens to Pascal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect on the reader of Equiano's emphasis on his early impressions of white people (that they are magic, devils, etc.)?

2. Describe what it means for an Eboe man to be designated as "Embrenche."

3. How are King, Equiano, and Famer all characterized by the episode when King threatens to sell Equiano and Farmer persuades him not to do that?

4. In Chapter 3, how is Pascal characterized?

5. What are the two disappointments Equiano experiences in the Mediterranean?

6. Why is it ironic that Equiano goes with Pascal to help him find men to force into military service?

7. Discuss the significance of King's promise to make Equiano a clerk.

8. Discuss the significance of Equiano's trip to Philadelphia.

9. List two important concepts in Eboe religion, as Equiano describes it.

10. Explain the argument Equiano makes to prove that Africans are related to Europeans.

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