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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21: "The Story of the Palace"- Chapter 25: "The Story of Hawikuh" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Heniya's story about the embroiderer and the caftans, what happens at the end of the story when the girl is found to be useless with a lute?
(a) The girl dies.
(b) The girl is beaten so badly that she is permanently maimed.
(c) The girl gets engaged.
(d) The girl inherits a great deal of money.

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?
(a) 15.
(b) 32.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

3. Who tried to assure Governor Guzman that the Indians in the group of healers could be peacefully converted to a specific religion?
(a) Father Anselmo.
(b) Oyosamot.
(c) Señor Cabeza de Vaca.
(d) Señor Dorantes.

4. Which part of his own body did Señor Dorantes use in order to handle Mustafa when he was considering whether to make a purchase?
(a) His elbow.
(b) His thumb.
(c) The back of his hand.
(d) His forefinger.

5. Whose departure from the expedition greatly upset Diego, Señor Dorantes's brother?
(a) Father Anselmo's.
(b) Señor Castillo.
(c) Señor Albaniz.
(d) Señor Benitez.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of the expedition wore a black eye patch?

2. Once the expedition was reduced to using their handmade rafts, a royal official suddenly "had to share" what item "with a carpenter" (151)?

3. Which deity does Mustafa name in the Prologue of The Moor's Account?

4. From what tribe did Oyosamot hail?

5. What secret did Mustafa keep from his family, as revealed in Chapter 6: "The Story of the Sale"?

(see the answer key)

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