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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 states that when the farmers in Azemmur fell onto hard times, they were forced to use what as payment?
2. How old was Mustafa by the time he had been enslaved for a total of five years?
3. Zainab was which female member of Mustafa's family with whom he lived in Azemmur?
4. How old was Heniya when she married Mustafa's father?
5. Once a particular character ordered that the Indians be locked in the storehouse, he called for what weapon to be brought to him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What major plot development involving "nearly thirty men" (127) occurs by the fifth day of the armada's march toward Aute?
2. What are the reasons behind Mustafa's desire to record his own account of the expedition led by Senor Narvaez?
3. Mustafa's memory of being purchased by Señor Dorantes primarily involves which of the five senses? In what way?
4. What change occurred in the personality of Mustafa's father and what caused the change?
5. Discuss a scene Mustafa describes that would almost certainly not have appeared in the "Castilian gentlemen's" (3) official account?
6. Who were the main leaders of the expedition to La Florida? Name one fact about each leader.
7. How did Mustafa react to his father's plans for Mustafa's future career?
8. Which member of Mustafa's family died shortly before Mustafa sold himself into slavery to feed his family?
9. 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?
10. With what element of life did Mustafa become too entranced, causing him to eventually name it among the causes of his downfall?
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
Discuss Lalami’s use of the motif of sound within the novel The Moor's Account.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Lalami's choice to tell the story of The Moor's Account using the first person point-of-view from Mustafa’s perspective. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Lalami’s intended effects on the reader?
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