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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. To which of the following does the narrator compare road workers?

2. Which of the following candies does the narrator note receiving at Halloween?

3. What color hair do the women who dance with Guy No-Horse have?

4. Which of the following sodas does the woman with no legs drink?

5. Which of the following does the narrator refer to as a drummer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What results from Mojave Barbie’s assignations with Ken?

2. How are the Hopi men pressured to return to work in “The Facts of Art”?

3. What is noted as being needed to justify the presence of insulin among Mojave Barbie’s effects?

4. In “Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Reservation,” how is Gabe described?

5. For what does the narrator note having prayed to the tortilla god?

6. What living situation does the narrator describe for her brother when he was the Aztec of the title?

7. What crown does the narrator’s brother wear?

8. What does the narrator note being given by history?

9. What complaint does the narrator voice about raisins after eating them?

10. At what point does the narrator note her brother stopped wearing shirts?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What attitude toward shame does the collection note? What in the text indicates that attitude? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Fundamentally, whose story is told in When My Brother Was an Aztec? That is, who is the protagonist? How does the collection show it?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast any two of the poems in the collection in terms of overall effect. Attend not only to their formal features, but also to their content and its implications.

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