This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21: "The Story of the Palace"- Chapter 25: "The Story of Hawikuh" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object was the pebble touching when Mustafa found it in the village of a dozen huts?
(a) A cooking pot.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A fishing net.
(d) A sweater.

2. How many muskets did the members of the expedition have left when they waited all night for the missing members of the company to appear?
(a) 12.
(b) 20.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

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

4. What adjective does Mustafa use to describe Oyosamot's "stare" (225) when he first meets her?
(a) Wry.
(b) Mocking.
(c) Flirtatious.
(d) Mean.

5. What sort of transport were Mustafa's parents using to cross Umm er-Rbi’ River on the day his father was attacked by a Portuguese soldier?
(a) A raft.
(b) A rowboat.
(c) A bridge.
(d) A ferry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mustafa recalls in Chapter 13: "The Three Rivers" that the first time he noticed the Castilians were not naming landscape features, they had encountered what type of feature?

2. With whom did Mustafa fall in love in Chapter 16: "The Story of the Avavares"?

3. What item from an earlier chapter appears in Chapter 11: "The Story of the Rafts" when it is found on the ration master's corpse?

4. What symptom did the ration master display just before he died?

5. The amulet Mustafa found outside of the palace gates at the viceroy's dwelling was crafted in the shape of what object?

(see the answer key)

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