LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Question
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In Olaudah Equiano’s narrative, what does he originally believe will happen to him?
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He will be eaten by the white men
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He will fall overboard
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He will die below deck
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -What does Equiano fear will happen to him when he is taken aboard the ship? He fears the white man will kill and eat him.
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: -Equiano wants his readers to believe that he was able to find in the Seven Years’ War an avenue for regaining the power, valor, honor, and respect in short, the humanity of which he had been robbed by his abduction into slavery.
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