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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event precipitated Spain's complete loss of power?
(a) Mexico's revolt against her.
(b) Her faith losing all potency.
(c) The loss of her naval supremacy.
(d) Her strong monarch's death.

2. Other than solitude, what does the Mexican often feel in relation to other peoples?
(a) Inferiority.
(b) Complete isolation.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Intellectualism.

3. As Paz uderstands it, what is the Mexican's relation to death?
(a) Intimate and heartbreaking.
(b) Sacrificial.
(c) Emotionally remote.
(d) Intimate but empty.

4. Which of the following powers does the saying "I am your father" hold? (Chapter Four, page 80).
(a) The subtle power of the seemingly weaker person.
(b) The power of the justified and privileged person.
(c) The power of the Creator.
(d) The power of the closed person, the aggressor.

5. How does a man become "like the angels" (Chapter Three, page 61)?
(a) By valuing life to its final moment.
(b) By entrusting everything to God.
(c) By opening fully to death, as well as to life.
(d) By running from death to an embracement of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paz says that during critical moments in a nation's development, the people ask themselves a critical question. What is that question?

2. Why did the sense of Mexicanism "float" in the air of Los Angeles?

3. How did the Spanish Conquest treat religion?

4. According to the tribe of the Chamulas, what is a chulel?

5. Through dissimulation, what does a Mexican attempt to do?

(see the answer key)

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