LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
His brother
|
|
|
His mother
|
|
|
His sister
|
|
|
His father
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Gustavus Vassa was born in 1745 in the Igbo region of the Kingdom of Benin, today southern Nigeria. He was the youngest son in a family of six sons and a daughter. He was stolen with his sister and sold into slavery at the age of 11.
Detailed explanation-2: -Olaudah was 11 years old when he and his sister were kidnapped from their home in the Eboe region of the Kingdom of Benin (likely, modern-day Nigeria) while their parents worked in the field.
Detailed explanation-3: -His family owned slaves, but there was also a continual threat of being abducted, of becoming someone else’s slave. This is what happened, one day, while Equiano and his sister were at home alone. Two men and a woman captured the children. Several days later Equiano and his sister were separated.
Detailed explanation-4: -Equiano was born in what is now Nigeria and sold into slavery aged 11. After spells in Barbados and Virginia he spent eight years travelling the world as slave to a British Royal Navy officer, who renamed him Gustavus Vassa.
Detailed explanation-5: -Equiano and his sister were kidnapped by two men and one women. They were home alone that day because their parents were working out in the fields. The attackers jumped over the wall and instantly taped the kids mouth and ran off into the woods.