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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. By the time Mustafa met Señor Alcarez, how many people were part of Mustafa's group of healers?
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. What event occurred to cut short the mutiny against Señor Narvaez after he declared it was every man for himself?
4. When the five horsemen led Mustafa's small group to the nearby Castilian encampment, they said that it was how many leagues away?
5. Just before Mustafa, Señor Cabeza de Vaca, Señor Dorantes, and Señor Castillo join together once again to search for the port city, which two arrived at the Yguace settlement?
Short Essay Questions
1. What hypothesis does Mustafa share with the reader regarding the reasons why Echogan's tribe attacked the members of the expedition?
2. Who was Señor Albaniz and what was his job within the armada's expedition?
3. Who was Behewibri?
4. In what way does the piece of glass in Chapter 18: "The Story of the Culiacan" dovetail with the pebble in Chapter 1: "The Story of La Florida"?
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. In what way does Lalami increase the suspense concerning the possibility of Mustafa's freedom?
7. Name three excuses members of the Children of the Sun gave to Governor Guzman when he demanded information in Chapter 19: "The Story of the Compostela."
8. Who was Chaubekwan and in what way was he different from other men Mustafa had encountered in his life?
9. What major change did Mustafa undergo after he and his companions formed the group called Children of the Sun?
10. What action did Señor Narvaez take near the end of Chapter 11: "The Story of the Rafts" that caused his crew to despise him?
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
How do the themes of deception and hypocrisy function within The Moor's Account and what is Lalami’s message regarding these themes?
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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