Reading Quiz 25

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Reading Quiz 25

• Equiano and Behn
• ENGL 2121 British Literature I
• Dr. Brian Ray

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Question 1

• What skill does Equiano use to help him earn
  enough money to buy his freedom?
• He is a blacksmith and carriage driver
• He is a natural leader and becomes an overseer
• He is a sailor and a merchant
• He is a fighter who wrestles in slave matches and
  bets on himself

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Question 2

• What trait that is not positive does Behn mention
  about the natives of the island?
• They all have dark hair that needs cutting.
• They have no goods to trade to the whites.
• They have reddish yellow or brick colored skin.
• They are too aggressive and direct for her.

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Question 3

• How does Oroonoko lose his wife and end up sold
  into slavery?
• The king takes Oroonokos wife as a mistress and
  Oroonoko kills the king to get her back.
• The king refuses to allow Oroonoko to remain
  married and sells them both into slavery.
• The king takes Oroonokos wife as a mistress and
  sells Oroonoko into slavery for treason.
• The king takes Oroonokos wife as a mistress and
  exiles them after they share a night of passion.

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Question 4

• What prompts Oroonoko to run away and to end his
  life as he did?
• He had led slave revolts and was being hunted.
• His wife had been murdered by the slave owner.
• He had slept with the owners wife and made her
  pregnant.
• His attempt to buy his own freedom had failed.