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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Equiano's first name, Olaudah, mean?
(a) Fortunate, or having a loud voice.
(b) Scar on the forehead.
(c) Village elder.
(d) Slave.

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

3. Where does the slave ship land?
(a) Barbados.
(b) Plymouth Rock.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Florida.

4. 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) African culture and religious practices resemble the practices of Jews described in the Old Testament.
(d) Europeans and Africans eat the same foods.

5. 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) Mathematics.
(c) That he is going to be sent to America on a slave ship.
(d) Two African languages different from his own.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the battle in the ocean between the French and the English end?

2. Why do Pascal and Equiano go to London after the fleet returns?

3. What animal does Equiano accidentally kill with a pebble?

4. How long is Equiano reunited with his sister?

5. Which statement best describes the Eboes' religious beliefs?

(see the answer key)

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