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

2. What is the song at the beginning of chapter five about?
(a) Seeing a person known long ago and remembering old times.
(b) A lost love remembered.
(c) Ways in which a beautiful person is bad.
(d) A spiritual awakening.

3. Why do men whistle at Azucena on the street?
(a) The cut of her blouse.
(b) Her to-die-for legs.
(c) Her bright red hair.
(d) The sign around her neck.

4. What is the one way for an unfaithful person to return to their original mate?
(a) After spending fourteen thousand lives being unfaithful, a person returns to their original mate.
(b) To beg for forgiveness.
(c) To focus all of their energy on helping to heal the person they once hurt.
(d) By allowing their own natural process of inner healing to allow them to forget the complication that they have brought into their life.

5. What does Isabel do on her computer as she travels through space, after leaving the planet Korma?
(a) Plays solitaire.
(b) She works on her political speeches.
(c) She reads articles about herself.
(d) Creates budgets.