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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does the Mexican man play in society?
(a) He defends everything that he has.
(b) He seeks to expand his control in the world.
(c) He wants to raise Mexico to a place of prominence in the world.
(d) He protects everything entrusted to him.

2. How are the evil words a sign and seal?
(a) They identify fellow Mexicans among strangers.
(b) They project the result that they will bring.
(c) They pull men out of their solitude.
(d) They seal the intention of the speaker.

3. Why did the sense of Mexicanism "float" in the air of Los Angeles?
(a) It was an ethereal sense of nationality.
(b) People struggled to retain Mexican identity in a foreign land.
(c) No one truly knew that it meant to be Mexican.
(d) It did not mix with the North American efficiency or precision.

4. Why was unemployment high in Mexico at the time that Paz was writing?
(a) The economy was going through a recession.
(b) The two biggest factories were experiencing lay-offs.
(c) The labor unions made it difficult for workers to get jobs.
(d) The population grew more quickly than industry.

5. In contrast to the North American, what is one of the most noticeable traits about the Mexican character?
(a) His obsession with love.
(b) His disinterest in emotional attachments.
(c) His aversion to horror.
(d) His acceptance of horror.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Paz, what does the lonely middle-aged man represent?

2. According to Paz, what philosophical fact defines much of Mexico's history?

3. Why did the Spaniards not exterminate the Indians after they were conquered?

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

5. How does modern society deny the very nature of love? (Chapter Nine).

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