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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: "The Story of the Sale"- Chapter 10: "The Story of Ramatullai" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mustafa says in Chapter 8: "The Story of Seville" that he went into the church as "the servant of God looked at him unblinkingly, all the while wondering what the action meant and why he repeated it with each one of us. It was not until much later that I understood the significance of the sign on our bodies. I had entered the church as the servant of God Mustafa ibn Muhammad ibn Abdussalam al-Zamori" (109) but that he left it with what name?
(a) Guadalquivir.
(b) Azemmur.
(c) Esteban.
(d) Estebanico.

2. How many Castilians were killed in the Battle of the Río Oscuro depicted in Chapter 3: "The Story of the Illusion"?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 24.
(d) 3.

3. How many ducats did Señor Dorantes pay for Mustafa when he purchased him from slave traders?
(a) 50.
(b) 200.
(c) 25.
(d) 75.

4. What sound first alerted Mustafa to the possibility that women were being abducted from the mound by members of the expedition?
(a) A bark.
(b) A sigh.
(c) A moan.
(d) A scream.

5. Mustafa recalls hearing whose voice calling out to him as he left the house to sell himself so that his family would not starve?
(a) His father's.
(b) His sister's.
(c) His twin younger brothers.
(d) His mother's.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country do Mustafa's so-called "companions" (3) hail, whose accounts he says he "intends to correct" (3)?

2. About what element is Mustafa speaking when he tells the reader in Chapter 8: "The Story of Seville" that its links "are heavier than any metal known to man" (105)?

3. For how many ducats did Señor Bernardo Rodriguez purchase Mustafa at the slave market in Seville?

4. What terms does Mustafa use to characterize the ways in which Father Anselmo was different from the other friars in the armada?

5. Mustafa story, The Moor's Account, begins with a sentence highlighting which year "in Hegira" (5)?

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