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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. Which member of the expedition was the first to live with the Yguace tribe?
(a) Señor Albaniz.
(b) Señor Dorantes.
(c) Señor Castillo.
(d) Mustafa.

2. What item from an earlier chapter appears in Chapter 11: "The Story of the Rafts" when it is found on the ration master's corpse?
(a) A comb.
(b) A sword.
(c) A hatchet.
(d) A pitchfork.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Indian followers were accompanying Mustafa when he spotted a piece of Castilian material on the ground?

2. 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?

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

4. Which remaining member of the expedition was most hurt by the departure of Señor Dorantes?

5. With whom did Mustafa fall in love in Chapter 16: "The Story of the Avavares"?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

2. What important information did Mustafa and Señor Cabeza de Vaca learn when they encountered five horsemen in Chapter 18: "The Story of Culiacan"?

3. By the time the events in Chapter 19: "The Story of Compostela" took place, how many years had passed since Mustafa sold himself into slavery?

4. What hypothesis does Mustafa share with the reader regarding the reasons why Echogan's tribe attacked the members of the expedition?

5. Toward what destination did Mustafa, Señor Cabeza de Vaca, Señor Dorantes, and Señor Castillo travel once they reunited at the end of Chapter 15: "The Story of the Yguaces"?

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

7. 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"?

8. 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?

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

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

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