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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many Castilians were killed in the Battle of the Río Oscuro depicted in Chapter 3: "The Story of the Illusion"?
2. What sort of literary device is utilized by Lalami when Señor Ruíz insists that he will not "wait for the savages to hunt [him] down like a partridge" (122)?
3. Who called to Mustafa in Chapter 1: "The Story of La Florida" to inquire about the pebble he had found?
4. What was the event that Mustafa names as having signaled the end of his family's happiness in Azemmur?
5. In what type of room did Mustafa sleep when he was enslaved by Señor Bernardo Rodriguez?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the caftan symbolize within Chapter 4: "The Story of Aemmur"?
2. How did Mustafa become a slave and how does Lalami go about revealing this information?
3. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Mustafa at times willfully accepted blame for acts over which he had no control.
4. 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?
5. What element of the marriage between Dorotea and Bernardo Rodriguez does Mustafa name as the secret to its success?
6. For what reason did the happiness of Mustafa and his family move?
7. How old was Mustafa when his father first shared with him his plans for Mustafa's future career and what details did he share?
8. How did Señor Ruíz come to lose an eye during the march toward Aute?
9. In what way does Lalami depict the theme of family bonds within Chapter 5: "The Story of the March"?
10. What major plot development involving "nearly thirty men" (127) occurs by the fifth day of the armada's march toward Aute?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how and why Lalami instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of The Moor's Account.
Essay Topic 2
Examine Lalami’s use of characterization methods to portray a number of real people within her novel The Moor's Account. What effects do these characterization methods have on the work's inherent themes and messages?
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently by Lalami in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of The Moor's Account. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Lalami’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
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