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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Day of the Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of book did Xavier Villaurrutia write?
(a) A scientific explanation of death.
(b) Death-related poetry.
(c) Life-related poetry.
(d) Religious exhortations about life.

2. How is the myth of the "long-suffering Mexican woman" created?
(a) When the woman becomes impassive in the face of suffering.
(b) When the woman's natural frailty becomes a virtue.
(c) When the woman overcomes her natural frailty.
(d) When the woman is most vulnerable to attack.

3. According to Paz, what does it mean when a person is alone?
(a) He is inferior.
(b) He is superior.
(c) He is different.
(d) He can never relate to other people.

4. Through dissimulation, what does a Mexican attempt to do?
(a) Become himself in contradistinction to others.
(b) Become invisible and save his individuality.
(c) Withdraw from society to save his individuality.
(d) Share his individuality with others to make it real.

5. In Paz's understanding of genders, how do Mexican women become like men?
(a) In love.
(b) Through self-denial.
(c) Through suffering.
(d) Through sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Paz's estimation, what vital word has the Mexican forgotten?

2. As the closure to Chapter Two, the reader sees what shadow spreading out over Mexico?

3. From what does a fiesta free the Mexican, in Paz's understanding?

4. What is the novelty of the pachuco clothing?

5. What is the most valued trait in both the military and political realms?

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