LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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his fear of the sailors
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his belief that the sailors were spirits
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the sailors’ cruelty toward the captives
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -At first, Equiano feared the “white men with horrible looks, red faces, and loose hair, ” and he wrote later of the terror he felt as the ship pulled away from his homeland, and he was forced to come to terms with his uncertain future.
Detailed explanation-2: -The book describes Equiano’s time spent in enslavement, and documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why are the slaves so frightened upon learning they must leave the ship? They fear they will drown as they leave.
Detailed explanation-4: -In accordance with the pattern of spiritual autobiography, Equiano’s narrative follows the three-part structure of spiritual and physical enslavement, conversion and escape from slavery, and subsequent rebirth in a life of spiritual and physical freedom.