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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. Lalami writes in the Acknowledgments section that she had based whose Chapter 1 speech on the document called the Requerimiento?
(a) Señor Dorantes.
(b) Señor Narvaez.
(c) Señor Albaniz.
(d) Señor Castillo.

2. 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 dies.
(b) The girl is beaten so badly that she is permanently maimed.
(c) The girl inherits a great deal of money.
(d) The girl gets engaged.

3. What term did Governor Guzman use to describe the Indians he had excluded from the feast?
(a) Murderers.
(b) Cannibals.
(c) Savages.
(d) Heathens.

4. What role did Behewibri hold within the Avavare tribe?
(a) Tax collector.
(b) Deputy.
(c) Shaman.
(d) Lawyer.

5. Mustafa and his companions awoke one morning in Chapter 13: "The Three Rivers" to find that how many men had died in their sleep?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the father of Oyosamot?

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

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?

4. To which religion did Governor Guzmán wish to convert the Indians who were members of the healing group?

5. When Mustafa uses the term "Castilians," (3) he is referring to natives of which country?

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