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Question 1
The History Matters summary passage does all of the following except?
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Question 2
A close reading of the Equiano passage does all of the following except
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Question 3
Which quotation from the Equiano passage best helps the reader picture the horrible situation onboard the ship?
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Question 4
Using context clues to decipher meaning, what is meant by the phrase "improvident avarice" in the Equiano passage?
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Question 5
How did the personal narrative help us to sympathize and empathize with the captives' experience in a way that the "History Matters" excerpts does not? Which do you find more powerful? Why?
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Question 6
Equiano's use of the pronouns "we" and "I" and the first person point of view in the passage do all of the following except
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Question 7
Which words in the following quote from the passage provide the reader with a feeling of desperation?
"One day they had taken a number of fishes; and when they had killed and satisfied themselves with as many as they thought fit, to our astonishment who were on the deck, rather than give any of them to us to eat as we expected, they tossed the remaining fish into the sea again, although we begged and prayed for some as well as we could, but in vain; and some of my countrymen, being pressed by hunger, took an opportunity, when they thought no one saw them, of trying to get a little privately; but they were discovered, and the attempt procured them some very severe floggings."
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Question 8
The following phrase illustrates which of the close reading elements we have been focusing on in this module?
"In this manner we continued to undergo more hardships than I can now relate, hardships which are inseparable from this accursed trade."
