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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. Where does Mixtli return to after his first journey as a tradesman?
(a) Tenochtitlan.
(b) His hometown.
(c) Mexcoco.
(d) Madrid.

2. Why is Mixtli invited to the court of Texcoco?
(a) To be the person who sacrifices others.
(b) To explain his relationship with his sister.
(c) To perform manual labor.
(d) To be educated.

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

4. What do Chimali and Tiatli specifically want to be when they grow up?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Journalists.
(c) Translators.
(d) Limestone sculptors.

5. How are swords sharpened in Mixtli's hometown?
(a) With sharp obsidian rocks.
(b) On very hard wood trees.
(c) With other swords.
(d) By leaving them in the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Red Heron?

2. What is so distinct about the Cloud People?

3. How does Gie Bele die?

4. Who is Cozcatl?

5. What language does Gie Bele speak?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What particular product, used by a doctor to try to save Slave Ten's life, does Mixtli find so interesting?

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

4. What does Mixtli do to the tapestry, made by his rival Chimali, when he sees it in a foreign ruler's court?

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

6. What happens to Cozcatl when Mixtli is at the human zoo?

7. Why do the Maya purposefully deform their faces?

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

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

10. In the opening of the book, what does Mixtli's sister, Tzitzilini, get punished for?

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