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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The City is referred to as ______ and is vastly different from the dystopian climate of the rest of California.
(a) The West.
(b) The East.
(c) The North.
(d) The South.

2. ______ is asked to speak and relates part of the history of Las Cuatros Viejas or the Four Old Women.
(a) Bird.
(b) Madrone.
(c) Maya.
(d) Cypress.

3. Within the book, Starhawk explores all of the following themes except ______ that she has explored in her other writings.
(a) Ecological.
(b) Political.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Racial.

4. Bird is able to soothe the man using ______ techniques and heal some of his pain. He is again warned to reveal none of these practices to the guards.
(a) Massage.
(b) Energetic.
(c) Sound healilng.
(d) Breath.

5. When Bird originally ended up in jail he was tortured by the guards so that he would divulge information about ______.
(a) The City.
(b) The West.
(c) The South.
(d) San Diego.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dystopian California exists on the control of a ______ fundamentalist military regime.

2. In the South, the policies are blatantly racist and forbid any form of cultural blending including speaking ______.

3. Bird is cautioned to continue to pretend that he has amnesia and to make sure the guards don't hear him speaking ______.

4. Within the military regime are two different factions. One is called _____ and represents the military wing.

5. The opening chapter alternates between the perspective of ninety-eight year old Maya and _______, the granddaughter of one of her lovers.

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