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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What physical characteristic does Mustafa NOT attribute to Señor Narváez in his account?
(a) He has sunken cheeks.
(b) He wears a helmet adorned with ostrich feathers.
(c) He has a long beard.
(d) He wears an eyepatch.

2. Mustafa recounts a time when Señor Bernardo Rodriguez pressed the heel of his boot against Mustafa's neck as punishment for what offense?
(a) Writing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Praying.
(d) Talking back.

3. What part of Mustafa's body did Señor Dorantes handle when he was deciding whether to purchase him as a slave?
(a) His ear.
(b) His arm.
(c) His ankle.
(d) His back.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what element is Mustafa speaking when he tells the reader in Chapter 8: "The Story of Seville" that its links "are heavier than any metal known to man" (105)?

2. Once a particular character ordered that the Indians be locked in the storehouse, he called for what weapon to be brought to him?

3. Mustafa states that members of the expedition found how many Indians hiding nearby the village with a dozen huts?

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. How many slaves on the ship that carried Mustafa had "indentured themselves for no money, only the promise of a meal a day" (82)?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way did Mustafa again undergo a name change when he was purchased by Señor Dorantes? What significance does he now find in this change?

2. Who is Estabanico and how does the narrator feel about the name?

3. Who were the main leaders of the expedition to La Florida? Name one fact about each leader.

4. What is the setting presented by Mustafa in Chapter 1: "The Story of La Florida"?

5. How did Señor Ruíz come to lose an eye during the march toward Aute?

6. In what way does the motif of water enter the story of Mustafa's birth, as related in Chapter 2: "The Story of My Birth"?

7. For what reason did the happiness of Mustafa and his family move?

8. Which member of Mustafa's family died shortly before Mustafa sold himself into slavery to feed his family?

9. How did Mustafa react to his father's plans for Mustafa's future career?

10. Discuss a scene Mustafa describes that would almost certainly not have appeared in the "Castilian gentlemen's" (3) official account?

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