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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: "The Story of the Rafts"- Chapter 15: "The Story of the Yguaces".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which part of his own body did Señor Dorantes use in order to handle Mustafa when he was considering whether to make a purchase?
(a) His elbow.
(b) The back of his hand.
(c) His thumb.
(d) His forefinger.

2. How many years did Mustafa spend with the Yguace tribe before he joined up with three other members of the original expedition?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

3. What event occurred to cut short the mutiny against Señor Narvaez after he declared it was every man for himself?
(a) A murder.
(b) A storm.
(c) A shark sighting.
(d) A drowning.

4. Many members of the expedition realized that they were hopelessly lost when they followed which natural feature "all the way to the ocean," but find "only a wide and shallow bay" (68)?
(a) Río Oscuro.
(b) Stanpole Creek.
(c) Snake River.
(d) The Umm er-Rbi’ River.

5. According to Mustafa's Uncle Omar, the Portuguese army that occupied Azemmur in Mustafa's youth and then took the city in the Battle of Azemmur numbered how many thousand men?
(a) 18.
(b) 4.
(c) 36.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of communication did Señor Dorantes use to tell his companions his reasons for leaving them?

2. Señor Dorantes claimed that he had left the camp of the Caranahuas because they had killed which character?

3. Who acted as the official notary of the armada, according to Mustafa?

4. What part of Mustafa's body did Señor Dorantes handle when he was deciding whether to purchase him as a slave?

5. When Mustafa joined a small party going ashore to scope out the area, in what type of vessels did they travel from the ship to the shore?

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