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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue-Chapter 5: "The Story of the March".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once a particular character ordered that the Indians be locked in the storehouse, he called for what weapon to be brought to him?
(a) A garotte.
(b) A knife.
(c) A sword.
(d) A whip.

2. Which deity does Mustafa name in the Prologue of The Moor's Account?
(a) Gonesh.
(b) Allah.
(c) Christ.
(d) God.

3. What terms does Mustafa use to characterize the ways in which Father Anselmo was different from the other friars in the armada?
(a) Smarter and kinder.
(b) Younger and taller.
(c) Quieter and sadder.
(d) Shorter and fatter.

4. In Heniya's story about the embroiderer and the caftans, what happens at the end of the story when the girl is found to be useless with a lute?
(a) The girl gets engaged.
(b) The girl inherits a great deal of money.
(c) The girl is beaten so badly that she is permanently maimed.
(d) The girl dies.

5. 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) Snake River.
(b) The Umm er-Rbi’ River.
(c) Río Oscuro.
(d) Stanpole Creek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mustafa begins his account by naming a particular year. For how many years had he been enslaved by this year's arrival?

2. Who pretended to understand the Indians' language and then ordered them to be locked in the storehouse?

3. 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?

4. Under what type of tree did the Castilians pile the 15 dead Indians who were killed at the battle of the Río Oscuro?

5. The kingdom called Apalache toward which the armada marched in Chapter 1: "The Story of La Florida" was supposed to be rich in what metal?

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