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Quiz for Document P2-1: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1794)

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Question 1

What does Olaudah Equiano’s account of the Middle Passage suggest about why the average slave mortality rate reached about 14 percent during the Atlantic crossing?A. 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, many 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 observations of white crewmembers on the slave ships led him to believe that that whites wereA. civilized and humane.
B. racially superior to blacks.
C. similar in most respects to all other people.
D. unusually cruel and barbaric.

Question 3

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. Planters’ enslavement of diverse ethnic groups
B. Slaves’ resistance to control by whites
C. The creation of an African American culture
D. The tribalization of Africa

Question 4

According to Equiano’s account, what was the final destination of the slave ship on which he was transported?A. Barbados
B. Louisiana
C. Brazil
D. Virginia

Question 5

Equiano’s pleas to end the human slave labor system are based on an appeal toA. Barbadian legal codes.
B. Christian morality.
C. economic efficiency.
D. Enlightenment values.