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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16: "The Story of the Avavares"- Chapter 20: "The Story of Mexico- Tenochtitlan".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of literary device is utilized by Lalami when Señor Ruíz insists that he will not "wait for the savages to hunt [him] down like a partridge" (122)?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Personification.
(d) Hyperbole.

2. What office did Guzman hold, as revealed in Chapter 18: "The Story of Culiacan"?
(a) King.
(b) Deputy.
(c) Mayor.
(d) Governor.

3. 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?
(a) A river.
(b) A plateau.
(c) A waterfall.
(d) A rock wall.

4. By the time Mustafa met Señor Alcarez, how many people were part of Mustafa's group of healers?
(a) 300.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 100.
(d) 600.

5. What permanent injury did Mustafa's father sustain on the day he was attacked by a Portuguese soldier?
(a) He lost his arm.
(b) He sustained a brain injury.
(c) He lost his leg.
(d) He lost his hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many ducats did Señor Dorantes pay for Mustafa when he purchased him from slave traders?

2. 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?

3. When the five horsemen led Mustafa's small group to the nearby Castilian encampment, they said that it was how many leagues away?

4. Mustafa states in the Prologue that he "intends to correct details of the history that was compiled by" what number of his companions?

5. What sort of weapon was used by the Indians who took out one of the expedition members' eyes?

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