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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who warns Ahuitzotl that another aqueduct might flood the city?
(a) Zyanya.
(b) Nezahualpili.
(c) Chimali.
(d) Mixtli.

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

3. What kind of sense does Mixtli get from talking to the shipwrecked Spaniards?
(a) Foreboding.
(b) Optimistic.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Alien.

4. How does Mixtli react to the request Ticklish makes of him after he returns from the Raramuri?
(a) He refuses to grant her wish.
(b) He grants her wish but tells her husband.
(c) He grants her wish but swears her to secrecy.
(d) He refuses to grant her wish and tells her husband, too.

5. Why is Mixtli concerned that Ticklish may not be happy in her new marriage?
(a) Because she is unable to bear children.
(b) Because her future husband has no penis.
(c) Because she will be sent away from her friends and family.
(d) Because her future husband is cruel and mean.

6. Who comes and visits Mixtli and Zyanya, and stays awhile, in their new home?
(a) Chiemi.
(b) Beu Ribe.
(c) Ahuitzotl.
(d) Chimali.

7. Who is Nochipa?
(a) Mixtli's second daughter.
(b) Mixtli's daughter Cocoton, just renamed.
(c) Mixtli's second wife.
(d) Mixtli's new wife.

8. Who wants to marry Mixtli's slave, Ticklish?
(a) Zyanya.
(b) Cozcatl.
(c) Ahuitzotl.
(d) Chimali.

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

10. How does Cozcatl die?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) Ticklish kills him by accident.
(c) He dies in battle.
(d) He drowns.

11. What does the tribute collector do when he learns that the Spanish troops are in charge?
(a) He begins to loot the Totonaca area.
(b) He kills the few Spanish soldiers.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) He has Verzcruz destroyed.

12. How does Mixtli gauge if the tribes he meets are kin?
(a) If they speak Nahuatl.
(b) If he has heard of them before.
(c) If they know the secret handhake.
(d) If they know the proper way to greet a stranger.

13. What physical aspect of the Raramuri fascinates Mixtli?
(a) Their long eyebrows.
(b) The fact that women shave their heads.
(c) Their long eyelashes.
(d) Their pubic hair.

14. With what tribe does the man in the loincloth, fishing for frogs, claim to be?
(a) Canautli.
(b) Nahuatl.
(c) Cayaulxauqui.
(d) Aztecatl

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What horrifies the Spanish soldiers about the city of Tenochtitlan?

2. Whom does Mixtli send to exact revenge on his enemy in the duel?

3. Who crashes Mixtli's wedding?

4. What happens to Beu Ribe that causes Mixtli to start to plan revenge?

5. What does Mixtli do to the cranky young man in a loincloth he finds fishing for frogs?

(see the answer keys)

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