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

2. Against what does the Speaking council ready to revolt?

3. With whom does Mixtli get in a duel?

4. What dead person comes to Mixtli in a vision?

5. What does Mixtli try to do to the woman he finds sitting but dead near an Otomi town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Canautli?

2. Who decides to make up a story about how the civilians (that Mixtli killed) were massacred by unknown assailants?

3. What is the only thing that provides a cheerful diversion for Mixtli during the time he spends building a new colony?

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

5. What reason does the Bishop give in his letter to the emperor for continuing to allow the Indians to be enslaved?

6. Why is Beu Ribe initially angry at Zyanya and Mixtli's engagement?

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

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

9. What does Mixtli tell Motecuzoma about the huge ships, or houses, that have been spotted in the Eastern Sea?

10. Why is Mixtli deployed to kill Malintzin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the characters of Tlatli and Chimali, making sure to analyze them as individual characters as well as their relationship with each other.

Essay Topic 2

Several characters in the story are married -- often more than once -- throughout the novel. Discuss the function of marriage within Aztec and what message, if any, Jennings is trying to convey about marriage itself through his characters.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss at least 4 literary techniques that Jennings uses to introduce Cortes as a complicated, historical character in the novel.

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