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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 symptom did the ration master display just before he died?
2. The group of healers formed by Mustafa, Oyosamot, Señor Cabeza de Vaca, and Señor Dorantes came to be named "The Children of the" (236) what?
3. How many years did Mustafa spend with the Yguace tribe before he joined up with three other members of the original expedition?
4. Which character administered a "zaatar" (224) in Chapter 16: "The Story of the Avavares"?
5. Who was the father of Oyosamot?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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."
2. Who was Chaubekwan and in what way was he different from other men Mustafa had encountered in his life?
3. What major change did Mustafa undergo after he and his companions formed the group called Children of the Sun?
4. 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"?
5. What hypothesis does Mustafa share with the reader regarding the reasons why Echogan's tribe attacked the members of the expedition?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. In what way does Mustafa demonstrate that he was making an effort to join his future with his past after he met Oyosamot?
9. 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"?
10. How did Señor Dorantes come to have a child on the way?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the messages sent about the theme of appearance versus reality within 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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