Chapter 3

Quiz for Chapter Three America in Global Context: Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal “Middle Passage”

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Question 1

Olaudah Equiano’s account of the Middle Passage suggests that one reason the average slave mortality rate reached about 14 percent during the Atlantic crossing was thatA. slaves were not provided with sufficient food and water during the journey.
B. contagious diseases were rampant among the slave ships’ human cargo.
C. assaulted by illness and emotional suffering, some Africans lost the will to live.
D. regular beatings at the hands of the ships’ crewmen led to the high death rate.

Question 2

Equiano’s description of being greeted upon his arrival in Barbados by “Africans of all languages” serves as evidence of which of the following?A. Tribalization of Africans
B. Planters’ use of ethnic diversity to deter slave revolts
C. Slaves’ resistance to control by whites
D. The creation of an African American culture