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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. 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?
(a) Canoes.
(b) Rafts.
(c) Dinghies.
(d) Rowboats.

2. Under what type of tree did the Castilians pile the 15 dead Indians who were killed at the battle of the Río Oscuro?
(a) Oak.
(b) Cypress.
(c) Mango.
(d) Olive.

3. Who pretended to understand the Indians' language and then ordered them to be locked in the storehouse?
(a) Señor Narváez.
(b) Father Anselmo.
(c) Señor Dorantes.
(d) Mustafa.

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

5. Which member of the expedition wore a black eye patch?
(a) Señor Castillo.
(b) Señor Dorantes.
(c) Father Anselmo.
(d) Señor Narváez.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. How old was Mustafa by the time he had been enslaved for a total of five years?

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?

5. Who called to Mustafa in Chapter 1: "The Story of La Florida" to inquire about the pebble he had found?

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