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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 symptom did the ration master display just before he died?
(a) Bleeding.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Convulsions.
(d) Paralysis.

2. Governor Guzman wanted to enslave the Indians in the group of healers, even though he declared such an act to be what?
(a) Despicable.
(b) Illegal.
(c) Harmful.
(d) Immoral.

3. Who helped Mustafa drag the bodies of the men who died in their sleep toward the river for a water burial?
(a) Señor Cabeza de Vaca.
(b) Diego.
(c) Señor Albaniz.
(d) Father Anselmo.

4. Which character suggested to Señor Narvaez that the rafts be linked together?
(a) Señor Castillo.
(b) Señor Dorantes.
(c) Father Anselmo.
(d) Señor Albaniz.

5. The group of healers formed by Mustafa, Oyosamot, Señor Cabeza de Vaca, and Señor Dorantes came to be named "The Children of the" (236) what?
(a) Wind.
(b) Light.
(c) Sun.
(d) Morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What office did Guzman hold, as revealed in Chapter 18: "The Story of Culiacan"?

2. Mustafa says that which character felt humiliated by the experience of sharing close quarters with members of different classes?

3. What job did Chaubekwan hold within the Yguace tribe?

4. How many of the five horsemen Mustafa encountered in Chapter 18: "The Story of Culiacan" were wearing helmets?

5. The satchel carried by the notary, Señor Albaniz, was made of what material?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name three excuses members of the Children of the Sun gave to Governor Guzman when he demanded information in Chapter 19: "The Story of the Compostela."

2. What change occurred in the way the Castilians viewed the landscape and why, according to Mustafa's comments in Chapter 13: "The Story of the Three Rivers"?

3. How did Mustafa's views about religion change over the course of the time he was in the New World?

4. Who was Chaubekwan and in what way was he different from other men Mustafa had encountered in his life?

5. Who was Behewibri?

6. In what way does the piece of glass in Chapter 18: "The Story of the Culiacan" dovetail with the pebble in Chapter 1: "The Story of La Florida"?

7. In what way does Lalami increase the suspense concerning the possibility of Mustafa's freedom?

8. For what reason did Mustafa become concerned when the number of followers traveling with the Children of the Sun group swelled?

9. In what way were the members of the Carancahua tribe different from other tribes Mustafa had encountered?

10. What aspect of Oyosamot's character did Mustafa particularly admire and why?

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