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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in chapter two, what is the greatest reward a human being can ever experience?
(a) The meeting of a twin soul.
(b) Meeing the Creator.
(c) Creating art.
(d) The removal of all hate in the heart.

2. What does the coyote at the end of chapter four try to sell Azucena?
(a) A silver spoon.
(b) Illegal music.
(c) Plant speakers.
(d) A body.

3. What does Azuena's Guardian Angel monitor at the beginning of chapter eight?
(a) Azucena's illness.
(b) Azucena's cooking.
(c) Azucena's depression.
(d) Azucena's gambling.

4. What does Isabel suspect?
(a) The termite report on her new home.
(b) Mammon's work proposal.
(c) People plotting against her.
(d) Her daughter's political intentions.

5. Why does Isabel disintegrate her daughter?
(a) Isabel wants to organize her life in order to be able to better care for her daughter in the future.
(b) Isabel believes that her daughter would have been subversive because of her astrological chart.
(c) Isabel is jealous of her daughter's beauty.
(d) Isabel believes that there may be a cure for her daughter's illness in the future.

6. What does Cuquia have in her shopping bag at the beginning of chapter seven?
(a) Antique lamp shades.
(b) Virtual Reality Books.
(c) Pirated music CDs.
(d) Fruit.

7. Why does Hernán Cortés decide to build a new city on an ancient one?
(a) He feels that he should utilize the large labor force available to him in this area.
(b) He believes that God wanted for him to establish an even greater city in its place.
(c) He enjoys the altitude and other unique geographical features of the city.
(d) He quickly understood that he had to obliterate all traces of the ancient city in Aztec memory.

8. What is Azucena's job?
(a) She is an Astroanalyst.
(b) She is a Teacher.
(c) She is a Landscape Artist.
(d) She is a Fashion Consultant for a production company.

9. Why does the Viceroy dine with Rodrigo?
(a) He visits Rodrigo to congratulate him on his new encomienda.
(b) He dines at Rodrigo's home when he brings news of an Indian uprising.
(c) He visits Rodrigo to warn him to threaten to strip him of his Indians if he is lenient with them.
(d) He dines with Rodrigo because he has heard rumors of Citlali's exquisite cooking.

10. When do Citlali and Rodrigo first meet?
(a) When Rodrigo saves Citlali from a burning building.
(b) When Rodrigo arrives to the city, and destroyed the palace that Citlali was in.
(c) When Rodrigo spots Citlali begging, and offers her a place to stay.
(d) When Citlali, who is performing in the center of Tenochtitlan, sings a song for Rodrigo.

11. What device does Azucena want from Dr. Díez?
(a) A device that he invented to hear the thoughts of others.
(b) A device that bypasses auric field blocks.
(c) A device that photographs someone's aura, and detects traces of who has been in contact with that person.
(d) A device used to communicate with plants.

12. What is a Plantspeaker?
(a) An invention that, through the power of music, can increase or decrease the size of plants.
(b) A speaker in the shape of a pot, which helps plants to grow when music in balance with the Divine Plan is played.
(c) A device that translates the electrical emissions from plants into words.
(d) A special kind of speaker used in therapy designed to plant positive feelings in the mind of the listener.

13. Where do Azucena and Cuquita spot each other standing in the same line?
(a) At Tepito, the black market.
(b) At the drug store.
(c) At the apartment public bathroom.
(d) At the Consumer Protection Agency.

14. What do aerophone booths do?
(a) They transflash people.
(b) They are public phones that send objects from one site to another, much like our fax machines send papers today.
(c) They are phones that allow auric contact at a distance.
(d) They materialize people's truest desires.

15. What is Azucena waiting for in chapter eight?
(a) The police to arrive.
(b) A pizza delivery.
(c) News from her doctor.
(d) Rodrigo to return.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator of chapter eight claim that Azucena had to go through losing Rodrigo?

2. Where is chapter one set?

3. Why do men whistle at Azucena on the street?

4. Where does Anacreonte say that truth is found?

5. What does Anacreonte claim directs us to foster balance?

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