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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 Mexican Masks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Paz discusses the result of persecution on the pachuco. What is that result?
(a) It strengthens his anger.
(b) It makes him distrustful.
(c) It breaks his solitude.
(d) It makes him stronger.

2. What is the novelty of the pachuco clothing?
(a) Its disregard for current fashion.
(b) Its exaggeration.
(c) Its colors.
(d) Its impracticality.

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

4. What is the most valued trait in both the military and political realms?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Courage.
(c) Stoicism.
(d) Valor.

5. As explained in Chapter One, who are the pachucos?
(a) Old men who no longer have a connection to their native land.
(b) Rebellious youths who are not assimilated into North American culture.
(c) Young men who leave Mexico for the United States hoping for a better life.
(d) Old men who keep the memory of Mexico alive in their grandchildren who were born in the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the pachuco represent in Paz's writing?

2. What did Paz find in the actions and faces of North Americans?

3. How does the pachuco present himself to the people around him?

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

5. Why are woman considered inferior people?

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