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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Mixtli and Zyanya go in their mission to steal a piece of precious hard metal?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Purempecha.
(c) The Grand Pyramid.
(d) Mexico City.

2. Who has doubts about the quality of the soldiers the farmers will make in the army Mixtli must put together?
(a) Angry at Everyone.
(b) Chiemi.
(c) Chimali.
(d) Blood Glutton.

3. How does Zyanya die?
(a) Mixtli loses his temper and strangles her.
(b) Her sister kills her.
(c) She drowns.
(d) She dies in childbirth.

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

5. Who is made the regent while Ahuitzotl is in his stupor?
(a) No one.
(b) His son.
(c) His nephew.
(d) His wife.

6. Who kills Blood Gutton?
(a) Ahuitzotl's daughter.
(b) Ahuitzotl himself.
(c) Ahuitzotl's guards.
(d) All of these answers are correct.

7. What does Mixtli try to do to the woman he finds sitting but dead near an Otomi town?
(a) Find out her name.
(b) Bury her.
(c) Have sex with her.
(d) Find her clothes.

8. What athletic activity do the Raramuri engage in?
(a) Long-distance running.
(b) Pole vaulting.
(c) Wrestling.
(d) Sword fighting.

9. What group is Mixtli inducted into?
(a) The Order of the Gods.
(b) The Order of the Eagle Knights.
(c) The Order of the Phoenix.
(d) The Order of the Fallen Warriors.

10. What are the Spaniards interested i nbringing back to their ruler?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Magic.
(c) Gold.
(d) Jewels.

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

12. Who does Motecuzoma send to Cortes after he defeats the Texcalans?
(a) The Snake Woman.
(b) Zyanya.
(c) The Twin Ladies.
(d) Tzitzi.

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

14. Why does Ahuitzotl decide to build another aqueduct?
(a) Because he loves architecture.
(b) Because there is a water shortage.
(c) Because he is fascinated with water.
(d) Because he loves aqueducts.

15. Against what does the Speaking council ready to revolt?
(a) The submission to Cortes.
(b) The ignoring of the omens about the Spanish.
(c) Mixtli's appointment as king.
(d) The conversion to Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Motecuzoma become ruler?

2. Whom does Mixtli leave his daughter with when he goes on another journey after the flood?

3. How long does it take to build the aqueduct?

4. Who is Cayaulxauqui?

5. What deity comes to Mixtli in a vision?

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