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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the event that Mustafa names as having signaled the end of his family's happiness in Azemmur?
(a) Earthquake.
(b) Siege.
(c) Monsoon.
(d) Drought.

2. What secret did Mustafa keep from his family, as revealed in Chapter 6: "The Story of the Sale"?
(a) The loss of his employment.
(b) The death of his wife.
(c) The loss of his scholarship.
(d) The injury to his hand.

3. What smell reached the members of the expedition and acted as the first sign that they were approaching Aute?
(a) Decaying flesh.
(b) Fish.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Saltwater.

4. What sacrament were Mustafa and the other slaves given up upon their arrival in Seville?
(a) Communion.
(b) Confirmation.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Confession.

5. What trope does Mustafa mention in relation to the Indian women's mournful voices decrying the rapes of their community members?
(a) The mother.
(b) The witness.
(c) The other.
(d) The orphan.

6. What sound first alerted Mustafa to the possibility that women were being abducted from the mound by members of the expedition?
(a) A bark.
(b) A moan.
(c) A scream.
(d) A sigh.

7. Mustafa notes that Senor Dorantes showed more favor to which character than he did to his own brother Diego?
(a) Señor Albaniz.
(b) Señor Dorantes.
(c) Señor Castillo.
(d) Señor Narváez.

8. Mustafa recalls hearing whose voice calling out to him as he left the house to sell himself so that his family would not starve?
(a) His sister's.
(b) His father's.
(c) His mother's.
(d) His twin younger brothers.

9. Mustafa states that he is writing the account that makes up the pages of the book how long after the events transpired?
(a) A few years back.
(b) A long time.
(c) Mustafa does not disclose this information.
(d) A short time.

10. Mustafa had already decided to be a merchant, rather than following his father into the notary business, by the time his brothers Yusuf and Yahya were how old?
(a) Infants.
(b) In their twenties.
(c) Teenagers.
(d) Toddlers.

11. Mustafa's second master, Señor Dorantes, called Mustafa by what name?
(a) Estania.
(b) Ludovico.
(c) Ferrer.
(d) Estebanico.

12. Which member of Mustafa's family fell ill around the same time he started to keep a secret from his family?
(a) His mother.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His sister.
(d) His father.

13. Many members of the expedition realized that they were hopelessly lost when they followed which natural feature "all the way to the ocean," but find "only a wide and shallow bay" (68)?
(a) Snake River.
(b) Stanpole Creek.
(c) Río Oscuro.
(d) The Umm er-Rbi’ River.

14. Who was the leader of the expedition, the man also known as "the governor" (6)?
(a) Señor Dorantes.
(b) Father Anselmo.
(c) Señor Castillo.
(d) Señor Narváez.

15. What object was the pebble touching when Mustafa found it in the village of a dozen huts?
(a) A sweater.
(b) A fishing net.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A cooking pot.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many ducats did Señor Bernardo Rodriguez purchase Mustafa at the slave market in Seville?

2. From what country do Mustafa's so-called "companions" (3) hail, whose accounts he says he "intends to correct" (3)?

3. According to Mustafa's Uncle Omar, the Portuguese army that occupied Azemmur in Mustafa's youth and then took the city in the Battle of Azemmur numbered how many thousand men?

4. What physical characteristic does Mustafa NOT attribute to Señor Narváez in his account?

5. Who read from a scroll once the whole party had disembarked from the ships?

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