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Question 1
Which quotation from the passage best illustrates the desperation of the captives?
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Question 2
What "mood" word best describes the feelings evoked by the story of Equiano's two "wearied countrymen" in their escape attempt?
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Question 3
Why did the captives choose to go overboard and drown rather than be enslaved, "preferring death to such a life of misery" on the day described?
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Question 4
Why did the crew put Equiano and his "active" fellow slaves under the deck and "make such a noise and confusion…as I have never heard before"?
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Question 5
In your opinion, why did the crew bother to rescue the one man who lived?
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Question 6
The following sentence is an example of which close reading element?
Happily perhaps for myself I was soon reduced so low here that it was thought necessary to keep me almost always on deck; and from my extreme youth I was not put in fetters.