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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lady Jadeston Doll do to her lovers?
(a) Banishes them.
(b) Tortures them.
(c) Keeps them in the castle dungeons.
(d) Kills them.

2. What overwhelms Mixtli about the boat that takes him to Texcoco ?
(a) How unsafe it seems.
(b) How small it is.
(c) He has to row it by himself.
(d) The riches on it.

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

4. Where does Tepetzalan work?
(a) In a rock quarry.
(b) He is the king, so he doesn't really work anywhere specific.
(c) He is unemployed.
(d) On the subway.

5. Who is Pactli?
(a) Mixtli's brother.
(b) Red Heron's son.
(c) Mixtli's son.
(d) Red Heron's brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mixtli find huge fossil bones?

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

3. Where is Mixtli taken on his naming day?

4. What is an acali?

5. What modern day city would Mixtli have been from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of costumes do children wear to celebrate the end of the hollow days?

2. According to Blood Glutton, how can Mixtli still achieve a flowery death if he cannot be victorious in battle?

3. How does Mixtli's sister seduce him?

4. How does Mixtli react when he sees the "tapir woman" in the ruler's human zoo?

5. Why do the Maya purposefully deform their faces?

6. What prediction does a stranger, who is sitting on a bench, make about Mixtli's future shortly after his renaming ceremony?

7. How old is Mixtli when he sees his first human sacrifice?

8. According to legend, which god is said to return with the Toltec people?

9. What kind act does Mixtli do for Flame Flower?

10. Why is Mixtli's home area called the five lakes region?

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