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Question 1
Which quotation from the passage best illustrates the desperation of the captives?
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Answer: Incorrect. The correct answer is B, "preferring death to such a life of misery." Go to question 2.
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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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Answer: Incorrect. The answer is C, Despair. Go to question 3.
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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?
Answer: The captives were desperate to be free and escape the chains and inhumane conditions in which they were trying to survive. They felt their chance at escape into the sea was preferable to spending the rest of their lives as slaves.
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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"?
Answer: Because there were many more captives then crew, they were probably afraid of losing many more of the unchained captives to the depths of the sea, and losing the money the slaves would have brought to the slave traders. They would have been in serious trouble if they did not make the money they needed to by selling as many slaves as possible. They were in a panic of losing control of the situation. Equiano was privy to all of this chaos and of the willingness of his fellow captives to die.
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Question 5
In your opinion, why did the crew bother to rescue the one man who lived?
Answer: The crew knew the monetary value of bringing as many slaves as possible to their destination for sale. They knew they would suffer if they lost captives who were healthy enough to be sold. It was to their benefit to keep them alive and to punish the captives who disobeyed and tried to escape by "flogging" to show their power and control.
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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.
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Structure
Something that is built, like a bridge or a building.
