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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. 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?
(a) 32.
(b) 2.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

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

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

4. What year did Torres name when he was asked for the current date in Chapter 18: "The Story of Culiacan"?
(a) 1498.
(b) 1536.
(c) 1634.
(d) 1511.

5. From what tribe did Oyosamot hail?
(a) Avavare.
(b) Mendoza.
(c) Inca.
(d) Carancahua.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asked Torres the date when he encountered the five Castilian horsemen?

2. Mustafa told Chaubekwan that those in his party who drank "an infusion of" (211) what "at the morning meal" were never afflicted with the fever?

3. What event occurred to cut short the mutiny against Señor Narvaez after he declared it was every man for himself?

4. Who was the father of Oyosamot?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to Señor Narvaez, according to a survivor who was on a raft with him when the company's rafts became separated from one another?

3. Who was Señor Albaniz and what was his job within the armada's expedition?

4. What event caused Mustafa to apply the name "The Island of Misfortune" to a particular location in Chapter 12: "The Story of the Island of Misfortune"?

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. What major change did Mustafa undergo after he and his companions formed the group called Children of the Sun?

8. What action did Señor Narvaez take near the end of Chapter 11: "The Story of the Rafts" that caused his crew to despise him?

9. 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"?

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

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