Oroonoko Study Guide

1. The opening setting is

• desert
• frozen wasteland
• underwater
• tropical

2. The narrator claims to be a/an

• Native
• detective
• African
• eyewitness

3. The narrator is

• Imoinda
• a young British woman
• Oroonoko
• an old Native man

4. The narrative opens in

• England
• Surinam
• Coramantien
• Africa

5. Early on, the narrator describes the area as containing

• exotic plants and birds
• golden beaches
• oak trees
• prickly desert plants

6. What do the Europeans use to trade with the natives?

• Buttons and bows
• Knives, axes and pins
• Guns and swords
• Gold and furs

7. The narrator describes the native people as

• outgoing and vivacious
• modest and shy
• surly and sour
• conniving and manipulative

8. A young native man who is in love with a girl

• talks first with her closest male relative
• talks only with her mother
• talks to her with his eyes
• talks with her behind her back

9. The narrator compares the natives to

• Spark and Finn
• Adam and Eve
• Eloisa and Abelard
• Romeo and Juliet

10. The natives are puzzled by a man who would

• lie
• play a flute
• frown
• wear glasses