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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Sons of La Malinche.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is death a part of the fiesta (Chapter Three)?
(a) Because people often get drunk and violent.
(b) Because exuberant death is honorable.
(c) Because the Mexican seeks to escape from himself.
(d) Because Mexico celebrates all aspects of life, even the end.

2. What happens when the Mexican dissimulates?
(a) He becomes estranged from society.
(b) He nearly ceases to exist.
(c) He preserves his individuality intact.
(d) He merges with the common people.

3. How did Paz consider his philosophical questions?
(a) As a waste of time.
(b) As meaningful only if they addressed the question of Mexican identity.
(c) As an excuse for not facing reality.
(d) As the only means to find answers.

4. In their relation to their world, to whom does Paz compare Mexicans?
(a) Nigerians.
(b) Peruvians.
(c) Orientals.
(d) Germans.

5. What familial relationship does Paz equate with solitude?
(a) Being an orphan.
(b) Having no siblings.
(c) Having no male relatives.
(d) Being childless.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does solitude assume a purifying, almost purgative, quality for the Mexican?

2. What is the novelty of the pachuco clothing?

3. Why does the worker lack mystery?

4. How does a man become "like the angels" (Chapter Three, page 61)?

5. Why does the modern novelist rarely choose the worker as his protagonist?

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