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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chimali hide his hair as a child?
(a) He rubs mud in it to hide the color.
(b) He tucks it under his shirt, in the back.
(c) In a hollowed-out pumpkin.
(d) Beneath a ski cap.

2. Whom does Mixtli ask to marry him?
(a) Tzitzi.
(b) Beu Ribe.
(c) Zyanya.
(d) Gie Bele.

3. Who is Tzitzilini?
(a) Mixtli's cousin.
(b) Mixtli's neighbor.
(c) Mixtli's daughter.
(d) Mixtli's sister.

4. What is Mixtli's formal, adult name?
(a) Mixtlilix.
(b) Tlilmix.
(c) Tlilectic-Mixtli.
(d) Mixtlini.

5. Who does Pactli wish to marry?
(a) No one.
(b) Mixtli.
(c) Tzitzilini.
(d) Red Heron.

6. Who is Blood Gutton?
(a) Mixtli's father.
(b) Mixtli's teacher.
(c) Mixtli's boss at the quarry.
(d) Mixtli's uncle.

7. At what pivotal moment does Cozcatl rejoin Mixtli?
(a) During a battle.
(b) Right before he is going to be killed for his crimes.
(c) During his trial.
(d) Right before he is going to kill himself.

8. Who are sacrificed at the end of the hollow days?
(a) Mixtli's favorite servants.
(b) Two slave children.
(c) Two goats.
(d) No one.

9. What happens to Mixtli on his way to Gie Bele's house the second time?
(a) He breaks his leg and gets trapped in a cave.
(b) He loses a bet and must become her slave.
(c) He is attacked and thought killed.
(d) He loses one foot to a crocodile.

10. Why is Mixtli sad to leave his hometown for Texcoco?
(a) He doesn't want to go at all.
(b) He is sad to leave his sister.
(c) He knows he will be killed there.
(d) He knows his new life will be just terrible.

11. What will happen if Pactli marries Tzitzilini?
(a) The family will become nobles.
(b) She must bear a son within one year.
(c) She will have to leave her hometown.
(d) All of her former boyfriends will be killed.

12. What does Mixtli learn about the Mexican people in his first history class?
(a) That they adopted the civilization of their new neighbors in the Lake region.
(b) All of these answers are correct.
(c) That they were nomads.
(d) That he has incorrect ideas about their history.

13. Who does Mixtli meet in the court of Texcoco when he first arrives?
(a) His grandfather, who he thought was dead.
(b) His sister.
(c) The cacao-colored man.
(d) His childhood friend.

14. What does Mixtli's formal, adult name mean?
(a) Deep-Rooted Tree.
(b) Cleansing Rain.
(c) Steady Mountain.
(d) Dark Cloud.

15. Who built Teotihuacan?
(a) The Tolteca.
(b) No one really knows.
(c) The Spanish.
(d) The Mexica.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during the "five hollow days" in Mixtli's hometown?

2. Who wrote Aztec?

3. What is Lady Jadestone Doll's punishment for her affairs?

4. What does Gie Bele's name translate to mean?

5. Why does Mixtli draw a picture of Pactli for Lady Jadestone Doll?

(see the answer keys)

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