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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first merchandise that Equiano buys to start his trading business?
(a) A silver teapot.
(b) Fruit.
(c) A drinking glass.
(d) Spices from India.

2. Why does Equiano get baptized?
(a) Because he doesn't understand that baptism is a religious act.
(b) Because the Eboe practiced baptism, too.
(c) Because an Englishwoman he visits tells him he can't get into heaven otherwise.
(d) Because he has converted to Islam.

3. What does Equiano say that Biblical scholars have said about Africans?
(a) That they were created to be slaves.
(b) That they are descended from Abraham.
(c) That they are evil.
(d) That they were created separately from Adam and Eve.

4. While traveling from one place to another in Africa, which of the following does Equiano learn?
(a) Two African languages different from his own.
(b) That he is going to be sent to America on a slave ship.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) How to track deer in the forest.

5. What is the name of the document that verifies a former slave has been given his or her freedom?
(a) Certificate of Freedom.
(b) Manual transmission.
(c) Emancipation.
(d) Manumission.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of work do most Eboe people do?

2. What European characteristic does Equiano say helps prove that Europeans and Africans are related?

3. What does "Embrenche" mean?

4. In Georgia, what does Equiano do that almost gets him flogged?

5. What does Equiano expect to do after the war?

(see the answer key)

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