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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. Why do the natives like Dr. Irving?
(a) Because he gives them whiskey and guns.
(b) Because he can dance and sing well.
(c) Because he converts them to Christianity.
(d) Because he cures snake bites.

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

3. What boring job does Equiano hold before returning to the sea in 1784?
(a) Writing autobiographies for other people.
(b) Works for an English nobleman.
(c) Insurance sales.
(d) Turkey-plucking.

4. Why does Equiano brings turkeys on the ship instead of bulls?
(a) Farmer goes back on his promise to allow Equiano to bring the bulls on board.
(b) Equiano decides he can make more money selling turkeys.
(c) Equiano's bulls die before he can get them on the ship.
(d) Equiano decides to stop eating beef.

5. What position does Equiano receive in relationship to the Sierra Leone project?
(a) He is the official hairdresser.
(b) He is the government watchdog.
(c) He is the government's commissary.
(d) He is the captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religious group does Equiano do a lot of business with in Philadelphia?

2. When he decides to buy his freedom, how much money has Equiano saved?

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

4. What other new skills does Equiano study in England?

5. Where does Dr. Irving decide to start a plantation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Equiano's encounter with Pascal when he returns to England the way you expected it to be?

2. How does the episode with the silversmith parallel earlier events in The Interesting Narrative?

3. How does the episode in which Phillips's crew see a flock of flamingos characterize the crew?

4. Describe and comment on Equiano's experiences with the Sierra Leone settlement.

5. How do Equiano's experiences in Georgia reflect on the conditions for free black men in the U.S. South before the Civil War?

6. How are Equiano and Farmer each characterized by the incident with the bulls and the turkeys?

7. Why do you think Equiano goes back and forth so much between going to sea and other ways of making a living, like hairdressing?

8. What is the significance of what happens to the bulls and the turkeys before the end of the voyage?

9. How does his experience of being "born again" change Equiano's attitude toward life?

10. What are the possible conclusions about Equiano's prophetic dream about finding a boat on the return trip from Cadiz?

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