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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part X, P. 723 to P. 796.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the hollow days end?
(a) A new year begins.
(b) Everyone confesses their sins.
(c) There is a night of celebration.
(d) All the farmers plant their crops.

2. Why is Tzitzi summoned by priests?
(a) Because she can see the future.
(b) Because she has confessed to being a sinner.
(c) To be examined for virginity.
(d) Because she has started talking in tongues.

3. What gives Mixtli the advantage in his duel?
(a) He gets there early.
(b) He has a gun he got from the conquerors.
(c) He uses sorcery.
(d) His far-seeing looking glass.

4. What is an acali?
(a) The name given to the person about to be sacrificed.
(b) A strange bug that seems to have mystical powers.
(c) A spy.
(d) The royal boat that takes Mixtli back to Texcoco.

5. Who is Cayaulxauqui?
(a) The moon goddess.
(b) The wind goddess.
(c) The fire goddess.
(d) The sun goddess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tribe has an old wise man who claims to know that they are descendants of the ancient Azteca people?

2. After he slaughters the villagers for killing his daughter, with whom does Mixtli march back to Tenochtitlan with?

3. What kind of town is "Where the Water Gushes"?

4. Who has been working on Mixtli's fossil bones?

5. What does Mixtli try to do to the woman he finds sitting but dead near an Otomi town?

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