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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does poetry tend to eradicate history? (Chapter Seven).
(a) Because it disdains history.
(b) Because it does not understand history.
(c) Because it attempts to explicate history.
(d) Because it transcends history.

2. Why were the Indians not outraged that their religions were replaced with Catholicism? (Chapter Five).
(a) Because their gods had betrayed them when Cortez attacked.
(b) Because they liked Catholicism better.
(c) Because they were not very connected to their gods.
(d) Because they had been reconnected to the world.

3. When Paz sees that Mexicans return to their tradition, what do they remember?
(a) That their tradition is rooted in conquest and slavery.
(b) That they do not belong to a greater universal tradition.
(c) That their tradition is mostly Indian.
(d) That they are part of Spain's tradition.

4. What did Manuel Gomez-Morin accomplish for the Revolution?
(a) He led the greatest contingent of soldiers.
(b) He formulated the property laws.
(c) He helped draft the new Constitution.
(d) He wrote the Plan of Ayala.

5. How does the Indian perceive salvation? (Chapter Five).
(a) As something solely individual.
(b) As something open to anyone who would believe.
(c) As part of society and the cosmos, as well as individual.
(d) As something attainable only by a few people.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Jorge Cuesta, how has Mexico created herself?

2. What was the motto of positivism?

3. What has happened to the former plurality of ideas and customs? (Chapter Seven).

4. Which of the following created the Spanish monarchy?

5. Why are people sad if a person dies badly (Chapter Three)?

(see the answer key)

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