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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city does the fleet return to?
(a) London.
(b) Portsmouth.
(c) Marseilles.
(d) Paris.

2. After the war is over, where do Pascal and Equiano go?
(a) London to collect pay from the navy.
(b) Virginia to visit Equiano's former master, where Pascal purchased him.
(c) Montserrat to start a sugar plantation.
(d) Paris.

3. How do the Eboe dress?
(a) The men wear pants and white shirts, and the women wear long, colorful dresses.
(b) They go naked, except for a small loin cloth.
(c) Both men and women wrap a single piece of blue fabric around their bodies.
(d) Wealthier Eboe people wear elaborate costumes made of feathers, precious gems, and animal skin, but poor Eboe are nearly naked.

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

5. What does Equiano's second West Indies owner promise to do for him later?
(a) Let him join the navy.
(b) Send him to England to work in an office there.
(c) Send him to Philadelphia and make him a clerk.
(d) Set him free at the age of 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. Equiano sees a slave whose leg has been cut off in the West Indies. Why was the slave's leg amputated?

2. What work does Equiano do for the owner who takes him to the West Indies?

3. How do Equiano's shipmates feel about Pascal selling him?

4. While traveling from one place to another in Africa, which of the following does Equiano learn?

5. Why does Equiano believe he has already bought his way out of slavery in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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