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

2. 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) 40.
(b) 18.
(c) 4.
(d) 36.

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) Shorter and fatter.
(c) Younger and taller.
(d) Quieter and sadder.

4. Mustafa had already decided to be a merchant, rather than following his father into the notary business, by the time his brothers Yusuf and Yahya were how old?
(a) Toddlers.
(b) Teenagers.
(c) Infants.
(d) In their twenties.

5. What crime did the soldiers commit in the village of a dozen huts that caused Mustafa to feel guilty for having no power to stop the soldiers?
(a) Assault.
(b) Murder.
(c) Rape.
(d) Theft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which deity does Mustafa name in the Prologue of The Moor's Account?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What physical characteristic does Mustafa NOT attribute to Señor Narváez in his account?

(see the answer key)

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