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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Equiano expect to do after the war?
2. Which of the following best describes the way Equiano goes to work for Farmer?
3. How does the battle in the ocean between the French and the English end?
4. What two skills is Equiano taught as a child?
5. How does it happen that the French attack the English on the way back across the Atlantic?
Short Essay Questions
1. List two important concepts in Eboe religion, as Equiano describes it.
2. How does being sold in the New World seem to differ from being sold in Africa?
3. Why do you think Equiano does not try to escape when he's on shore after the British win the battle?
4. Based on Equiano's descriptions of his experience as an African slave, would you say that system of slavery seems to match what Equiano told the reader about it in Chapter 1?
5. In Chapter 3, how is Pascal characterized?
6. Explain the significance of the Eboe practice of merchants kissing the food that they are offering for sale.
7. Describe Robert King's personality.
8. How does the description of military life in Chapter 3 reflect on English culture?
9. Does Equiano's personality seem to change at all in Chapter 3?
10. Discuss the significance of King's promise to make Equiano a clerk.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the importance and role of literacy in Equiano's life as described throughout The Interesting Narrative.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast John Annis's life with Equiano's. Could Equiano have met a fate like Annis's? What enables Equiano to avoid a sad end like Annis's? Be sure to identify the turning points during Equiano's life when things might have gone differently and set him on a course more like Annis's, and explain how Equiano avoided those dangers.
Essay Topic 3
Since The Interesting Narrative follows Equiano from childhood to adulthood, it is a story of a boy growing up as well as of a man seeking freedom and a spiritual home. How is Equiano's transition from childhood to adulthood affected by the fact that he is taken into slavery as an adolescent boy? How does the book show readers that transition?
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