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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 masters did Mustafa have before Señor Dorantes bought him from the slave traders?
2. Mustafa notes that Senor Dorantes showed more favor to which character than he did to his own brother Diego?
3. Which member of the expedition charged into the woods in Chapter 9: "The Story of Aute" and emerged with an eye missing?
4. Mustafa had already decided to be a merchant, rather than following his father into the notary business, by the time his brothers Yusuf and Yahya were how old?
5. How many husbands did Heniya, Mustafa's mother, have before she married Mustafa's father?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does the motif of water enter the story of Mustafa's birth, as related in Chapter 2: "The Story of My Birth"?
2. Discuss a scene Mustafa describes that would almost certainly not have appeared in the "Castilian gentlemen's" (3) official account?
3. Discuss an instance when Lalami uses an unconventional metaphor within the text.
4. How old was Mustafa when his father first shared with him his plans for Mustafa's future career and what details did he share?
5. What major plot development involving "nearly thirty men" (127) occurs by the fifth day of the armada's march toward Aute?
6. Name at least five "strange customs and unbearable rules" (114) required of slaves, according to Mustafa.
7. Who is Estabanico and how does the narrator feel about the name?
8. How did Mustafa react to his father's plans for Mustafa's future career?
9. What element of the marriage between Dorotea and Bernardo Rodriguez does Mustafa name as the secret to its success?
10. In what way does Lalami depict the theme of family bonds within Chapter 5: "The Story of the March"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Discuss Lalami’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of The Moor's Account.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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