The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the motto of positivism?
(a) "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity".
(b) "The Spirit Shall Speak through My Race".
(c) "Love, Order, and Progress".
(d) "Thus Shall We Live".

2. How does solitude assume a purifying, almost purgative, quality for the Mexican?
(a) It concentrates the Mexican's attention on the Divine rather than on the human.
(b) It serves to mitigate his guilt (a Catholicism concept).
(c) It wipes away his anger toward others.
(d) It is proof of future communion with others.

3. What was the Mexican intellectual's goal?
(a) Cultural education.
(b) Political action.
(c) Educational reform.
(d) Propagation of the arts.

4. How does a man become "like the angels" (Chapter Three, page 61)?
(a) By valuing life to its final moment.
(b) By entrusting everything to God.
(c) By running from death to an embracement of life.
(d) By opening fully to death, as well as to life.

5. In Paz's philosophy, why must Mexicans face reality alone?
(a) The modern world no longer has any ideas.
(b) They have alienated themselves from the world.
(c) They do not have a comprehensive philosophy of the self.
(d) They are not in step with the rest of the intellectual world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Spaniards find when they arrived in South America?

2. What was an important element of all ancient cultures?

3. During the Revolution, whom did the intelligentsia make the focal point of its activities?

4. According to Paz, what philosophical fact defines much of Mexico's history?

5. According to Paz, what is death in modern thought?

(see the answer key)

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