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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does it happen that the French attack the English on the way back across the Atlantic?
(a) The French intentionally try to disguise themselves as English ships.
(b) Native Americans on the French ship can hear the English ships coming.
(c) The English mistake the French fleet for other English ships.
(d) The Americans send a telegram to the French to tell them where the British are.

3. How do Eboe people acquire slaves?
(a) Children who have darker skin than others are marked for slavery at birth.
(b) They take slaves from other groups thorugh war or trade.
(c) People sell their own children to be slaves.
(d) Any boy who refuses to be circumcised is made a slave.

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

5. When Equiano is enslaved to a chief, what kind of shop does he work in?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A bakery.
(c) A blacksmith's shop.
(d) A goldsmith's shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Equiano explain the difference in skin color between Europeans and Africans?

2. What two skills is Equiano taught as a child?

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

4. How old is Equiano when he is kidnapped?

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

(see the answer key)

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