3. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 3: The Atlantic Slave Trade

**Quiz for Document 3.4: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)**

Quiz for Document 3.4: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

Document 3.4: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 3.10

1. According to Equiano, slaves enduring the Middle Passage resisted their captors in which of the following ways?

Jumping overboard

Refusing food

Organizing an insurrection

Spreading illness among themselves

Question 3.11

2. Why, according to Equiano, was he allowed to spend time above deck without chains and shackles?

The ship’s captain took a liking to him.

He was a particularly expensive and valuable slave.

He was very young and particularly ill.

He had expressed an interest in the workings of the ship.

Question 3.12

3. What does Olaudah Equiano mean when he writes in his narrative, “Often did I think many of the inhabitants of the deep much more happy than myself”?

He envied the men and women who were together below the ship’s deck.

He wished he were sick enough to sleep until the voyage was over.

He believed the ship’s sailors were better off than he, even if they were cruel.

He wished he could be free like his fellow slaves who had drowned themselves.

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