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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nochipa die?
(a) She is killed by Mixtli, just like her mother.
(b) She drowns, just like her mother.
(c) She is raped and murdered in a fertility ritual.
(d) She falls from a tree and snaps her neck.

2. What is noticeable about the shipwrecked Spanish soldiers?
(a) They have strange scarring.
(b) They do not speak.
(c) They have been tortured.
(d) They are quite smelly.

3. With whom does Mixtli get in a duel?
(a) Ahuitzotl.
(b) Blood Glutton.
(c) Chimali.
(d) Master Tuxtem.

4. What kind of town is "Where the Water Gushes"?
(a) Raramuri.
(b) Otomite.
(c) Aztec.
(d) Maya.

5. What revenge does Mixtli exact on his enemy in the duel?
(a) The person is chosen for human sacrifice.
(b) The person's eyes and tongue are cut out.
(c) The person is simply killed.
(d) The person's hands are cut off.

6. What dead person comes to Mixtli in a vision?
(a) The cacao-colored man.
(b) His father.
(c) Zyanya.
(d) His daughter.

7. Where does Mixtli follow the lava flow to?
(a) A secret underground cave.
(b) The volcano itself.
(c) The sea.
(d) An iceberg.

8. How long does it take to build the aqueduct?
(a) Six months.
(b) Ten years.
(c) One year.
(d) A lifetime.

9. What tribe has an old wise man who claims to know that they are descendants of the ancient Azteca people?
(a) Tzitzi.
(b) Manteca.
(c) Canautli.
(d) Mapimi.

10. To what animal does the lava flow that allows Mixtli to eat freely?
(a) Fish.
(b) Snake.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Deer.

11. Where does Mixtli agree to duel?
(a) In his backyard.
(b) Chaputepec.
(c) Motecuzoma.
(d) Tenochtitlan.

12. Who is Cocoton?
(a) Zyanya's sexual servant.
(b) Ahuitzotl's wife.
(c) Mixtli's baby daughter.
(d) Mixtli's sexual servant.

13. Who is Siriame?
(a) The leader of the Raramuri.
(b) A woman who was also lost at sea.
(c) Mixtli's second daughter.
(d) Mixtli's second wife.

14. How many new ships are in the Spanish fleet that arrives?
(a) 10.
(b) 40.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

15. What happens to Beu Ribe that causes Mixtli to start to plan revenge?
(a) Someone burns her house down.
(b) She is raped.
(c) She is killed.
(d) She is kidnapped and taken far, far away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What body fluid does on Otomi townspeople drink because they think it is magical?

2. What do Mixtli and his men dress like as they go in search of the purple dye?

3. When Mixtli finds shore after being adrift, under what kind of tree does Mixtli collapse?

4. What kind of sense does Mixtli get from talking to the shipwrecked Spaniards?

5. How does Mixtli react to the request Ticklish makes of him after he returns from the Raramuri?

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