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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Cocoton?

2. What are the Spaniards interested i nbringing back to their ruler?

3. Who comes and visits Mixtli and Zyanya, and stays awhile, in their new home?

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

5. How does Zyanya die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Motecuzoma handle the attack of the tribute collector?

2. What does Malintzin's ambitious behavior demonstrate right away to Mixtli?

3. Why does Cortes burn all of his ships but one?

4. What does Mixtli do to show his urgency among the priests who hold the purple dye?

5. What does Snake Woman realize after she is sent with golden gifts to Cortes in Chololan?

6. What two factors in particular convince Mixtli that the Spaniards are not gods?

7. How are Mixtli's crystals and bone carvings received?

8. What makes Mixtli decide to return to his wanderings when he is running with the Raramuri?

9. Why is Mixtli deployed to kill Malintzin?

10. What unique physical feature does the "unattached woman" in one of the Otomi towns have that Mixtl finds so attractive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose 2 characters and discuss why the do or do not listen to the omens that indicate that something negative will be happening in the future. What are the omens? What do they predict? Why do these characters refuse to "see" them? What do we learn about these characters as a result?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss female sexuality in Aztec by completing a character analysis of at least two female characters of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Create a well-crafted essay that discusses 1) the function of the Bishop, 2) what the reader is supposed to think of the Bishop, and 3) at least three literary devices that Jennings uses to convey what the Bishop thinks of Mixtli's life story.

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