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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. Mustafa begins his account by naming a particular year. For how many years had he been enslaved by this year's arrival?
2. Mustafa says in Chapter 8: "The Story of Seville" that he went into the church as "the servant of God looked at him unblinkingly, all the while wondering what the action meant and why he repeated it with each one of us. It was not until much later that I understood the significance of the sign on our bodies. I had entered the church as the servant of God Mustafa ibn Muhammad ibn Abdussalam al-Zamori" (109) but that he left it with what name?
3. Mustafa states that he is writing the account that makes up the pages of the book how long after the events transpired?
4. Which character did Señor Narváez order to head the raiding party that went on ahead to Apalache once the scouts spotted it?
5. What permanent injury did Mustafa's father sustain on the day he was attacked by a Portuguese soldier?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what reason did the happiness of Mustafa and his family move?
2. Who were the main leaders of the expedition to La Florida? Name one fact about each leader.
3. What is the setting presented by Mustafa in Chapter 1: "The Story of La Florida"?
4. What change occurred in the personality of Mustafa's father and what caused the change?
5. Which member of Mustafa's family died shortly before Mustafa sold himself into slavery to feed his family?
6. What are the reasons behind Mustafa's desire to record his own account of the expedition led by Senor Narvaez?
7. How did Mustafa become a slave and how does Lalami go about revealing this information?
8. Discuss a scene Mustafa describes that would almost certainly not have appeared in the "Castilian gentlemen's" (3) official account?
9. How did Mustafa react to his father's plans for Mustafa's future career?
10. Discuss an instance when Lalami uses an unconventional metaphor within the text.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Lalami's reasons for using the technique of a framed narrative to tell the story of The Moor's Account.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Lalami’s novel The Moor's Account. What message is Lalami sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Lalami’s messages about guilt and responsibility within The Moor's Account. Focus especially on events such as the incarceration of the followers of the Children of the Sun that comes about as a result of Mustafa’s actions.
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