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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. What role did Echogan hold within his tribe?

2. Which character suggested to Señor Narvaez that the rafts be linked together?

3. How many muskets did the members of the expedition have left when they waited all night for the missing members of the company to appear?

4. What term did Governor Guzman use to describe the Indians he had excluded from the feast?

5. Which character administered a "zaatar" (224) in Chapter 16: "The Story of the Avavares"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What change occurred in the way the Castilians viewed the landscape and why, according to Mustafa's comments in Chapter 13: "The Story of the Three Rivers"?

2. What happened to Señor Narvaez, according to a survivor who was on a raft with him when the company's rafts became separated from one another?

3. What action did Señor Narvaez take near the end of Chapter 11: "The Story of the Rafts" that caused his crew to despise him?

4. How did Mustafa's views about religion change over the course of the time he was in the New World?

5. In what way does the theme of class difference appear in Chapter 11: "The Story of the Rafts"?

6. How did Señor Dorantes come to have a child on the way?

7. Who was Behewibri?

8. How does Señor Dorantes react to the living conditions on the tiny rafts in Chapter 11: "The Story of the Rafts" and how is his reaction different from Mustafa's reaction?

9. Which character was most disturbed by the decision of Señor Dorantes to leave the Carancahuas' settlement with no notice and why?

10. In what way were the members of the Carancahua tribe different from other tribes Mustafa had encountered?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Explicate the theme of power within The Moor's Account. What is Lalami’s message regarding the nature of power and how do you know?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Lalami’s use of the motif of sound within the novel The Moor's Account.

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