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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 does the Mexican value in art, religion, and politics?
(a) Originality.
(b) Purity.
(c) Equality.
(d) Form.
2. What model do Mexicans prefer that the woman follow?
(a) A general model of decency, secrecy, and long-suffering.
(b) The model of The Virgin Mary - chaste and kind.
(c) A model of strength, praise, and fortitude.
(d) The model of ancient Mexican goddesses.
3. In Paz's thought, what does a study of the great myths reveal?
(a) Man will continually become better than he is now.
(b) Man can only be saved by something other than himself.
(c) Man will never truly be saved.
(d) Man has broken the order of the universe.
4. When does the pachuco become his true self?
(a) When his life explodes.
(b) When he is alone.
(c) When he is in Mexico.
(d) When he is surrounded by fellow Mexicans.
5. According to Paz, what does it mean when a person is alone?
(a) He is superior.
(b) He can never relate to other people.
(c) He is inferior.
(d) He is different.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why are people sad if a person dies badly (Chapter Three)?
2. How does solitude assume a purifying, almost purgative, quality for the Mexican?
3. Why are woman considered inferior people?
4. When Aztec victims were sacrificed, why did their deaths lack personal meaning?
5. Why are a woman's instincts those of a species rather than her own?
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