Question

In the beginning of the selection from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, what does Equiano describe as causes of the intolerable smell on the ship? Choose three options.
A. The Africans were only given raw fish to eat.
B. The Africans were hot and perspired heavily.
C. The Africans were made to wash with unfamiliar soap.
D. The Africans were crowded in next to cattle and sheep.
E. The Africans were forced to relieve themselves in open tubs.
F. The Africans were squeezed very tightly together in the hold.

Answer 1

Answer:

B. The Africans were hot and perspired heavily.

F. The Africans were squeezed very tightly together in the hold.

E. The Africans were forced to relieve themselves in open tubs.

Explanation:

According to "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano", Equiano, the narrator describes the cause of the intolerable smell of the ship as the slaves being hot and perspiring heavily, being squeezed very tightly together, and the slaves being forced to relieve themselves in open tubs.

The living conditions in the ship was inhuman, unbearable and incredibly cruel because the slave masters treated them as less than dogs