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

2. When Equiano feels an earthquake during the night, what does he think it is?
(a) He thinks he's on a ship in rough waters.
(b) A dream.
(c) Kids shaking his bed to play a prank.
(d) Ghosts.

3. What sign is used to mark an Embrenche?
(a) A headdress of feathers.
(b) A silver badge.
(c) A scar on the forehead.
(d) A red armband.

4. What do the Eboe believe about the afterlife?
(a) They believe that good people are rewarded after death and bad people are punished.
(b) They believe that everyone is reincarnated until they learn how to be virtuous.
(c) They believe that everyone goes to heaven when they die.
(d) They have no idea of life after death.

5. After accidentally killing an animal with a pebble, what does Equiano do?
(a) Escapes from slavery.
(b) Takes the animal to cook and eat it.
(c) Hides in the shrubs.
(d) Goes to his father and says "I can not tell a lie, it was I who killed it with my pebble."

Short Answer Questions

1. What city does the fleet return to?

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

3. Which is the best description of Equiano's injuries in the battle at Gibraltar?

4. When Equiano is sold to a merchant in Tinmah, how is he treated?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Based on Equiano's descriptions of his experience as an African slave, would you say that system of slavery seems to match what Equiano told the reader about it in Chapter 1?

2. What upsets Equiano the most about the slave auctions in the West Indies?

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

4. In Chapter 3, how is Pascal characterized?

5. Why do you think Equiano does not try to escape when he's on shore after the British win the battle?

6. How does the description of military life in Chapter 3 reflect on English culture?

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

8. 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?

9. According to Equiano, what is slavery in the West Indies like?

10. Describe Captain Doran's personality.

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