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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do a pachuco's actions and lifestyle demonstrate?
(a) His will to remain different.
(b) His dissatisfaction with North American culture.
(c) His anger at a culture that will not assimilate him.
(d) His desire to return to Mexico.

2. In Paz's opinion, when is a person most likely to see himself as precious and unique?
(a) When he is in love.
(b) During adolescence.
(c) At the end of his life.
(d) In childhood.

3. What is the difference between the Mexican killer and the modern one?
(a) The Mexican kills as an expression of love.
(b) Only the Mexican killer expresses true hatred.
(c) The Mexican kills a man, not an object.
(d) The Mexican obliterates an object, not a man.

4. What did the Revolution force the Mexican people to do?
(a) Synthesize their colonial past with the pre-Catholicism past..
(b) Think about the future in global terms.
(c) Confront history and invent their future.
(d) Overcome the institutions of colonialism.

5. Paz says that during critical moments in a nation's development, the people ask themselves a critical question. What is that question?
(a) How can we move forward?
(b) How do we want the future to look?
(c) Who are we and how can we fulfill this obligation?
(d) Who should lead us?

Short Answer Questions

1. What horror did Cortez's rule not commit?

2. Aside from being an excess, what does the fiesta revolt against?

3. What role does the Mexican man play in society?

4. How did the Revolution relate to reality?

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

(see the answer key)

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