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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job did Chaubekwan hold within the Yguace tribe?
(a) Officiant.
(b) Judge.
(c) Deputy.
(d) Shaman.

2. What is NOT a grooming step Señor Dorantes took on the way to meet with Governor Guzmán?
(a) He shaved his head.
(b) He perfumed his hair.
(c) He trimmed his beard.
(d) He cut off his braids.

3. The satchel carried by the notary, Señor Albaniz, was made of what material?
(a) Wood.
(b) Banana leaves.
(c) Felt.
(d) Leather.

4. What action did the ration master take in Chapter 11: "The Story of the Rafts" that resulted in his death?
(a) He held his breath.
(b) He looked into the sun.
(c) He drank a flask of saltwater.
(d) He went for a swim.

5. Which remaining member of the expedition was most hurt by the departure of Señor Dorantes?
(a) Señor Ruiz.
(b) Señor Castillo.
(c) Señor Cabeza de Caca
(d) Father Anselmo.

6. How many horsemen did Mustafa and his group of gatherers see approaching them in Chapter 18: "The Story of Culiacan"?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

7. Toward what feature did the members of the expedition believe they were traveling when they paddled along the shore in their rafts?
(a) The lighthouse.
(b) The bay.
(c) The sister island to La Florida.
(d) The port.

8. Which member of the expedition harshly chastised Señor Dorantes in Chapter 15: "The Story of the Yguaces"?
(a) Señor Castillo.
(b) Mustafa.
(c) 15
(d) Ch

9. What role did Echogan hold within his tribe?
(a) Deputy.
(b) Cacique.
(c) Prefect.
(d) Shaman.

10. Torres, the apparent leader of the group of five horsemen Mustafa encounters, has what first name?
(a) Patricio.
(b) Mafizo.
(c) Juarez.
(d) Tobias.

11. Who asked Torres the date when he encountered the five Castilian horsemen?
(a) Mustafa.
(b) Señor Castillo.
(c) Señor Cabeza de Vaca.
(d) Señor Albaniz.

12. Once the expedition was reduced to using their handmade rafts, a royal official suddenly "had to share" what item "with a carpenter" (151)?
(a) A comb.
(b) A toothbrush.
(c) A cup of water.
(d) A poncho.

13. 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) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

14. Who tried to assure Governor Guzman that the Indians in the group of healers could be peacefully converted to a specific religion?
(a) Señor Dorantes.
(b) Father Anselmo.
(c) Oyosamot.
(d) Señor Cabeza de Vaca.

15. What event occurred to cut short the mutiny against Señor Narvaez after he declared it was every man for himself?
(a) A shark sighting.
(b) A storm.
(c) A murder.
(d) A drowning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helped Mustafa drag the bodies of the men who died in their sleep toward the river for a water burial?

2. Just before Mustafa, Señor Cabeza de Vaca, Señor Dorantes, and Señor Castillo join together once again to search for the port city, which two arrived at the Yguace settlement?

3. From what tribe did Oyosamot hail?

4. How many days after losing a number of men to an assault waged with rocks did the expedition reach the mouth of a wide river?

5. What was the name of the port city for which Mustafa and his companions decided to look again in Chapter 15: "The Story of the Avavares"?

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