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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What mentality does Paz attribute to the Mexican?
(a) Master.
(b) Servant.
(c) Victim.
(d) Leader.
2. According to Paz's argument, what is the source of the North American's irritation with the pachuco?
(a) He sees the pachuco as an invader.
(b) He sees the pachuco as a mythical figure, and thus dangerous.
(c) He does not know how to relate to the pachuco.
(d) He sees the pachuco as a threat to North American society.
3. What is the difference between the Mexican killer and the modern one?
(a) The Mexican kills as an expression of love.
(b) The Mexican kills a man, not an object.
(c) The Mexican obliterates an object, not a man.
(d) Only the Mexican killer expresses true hatred.
4. Chapter Three begins with the great effect that fiestas and public celebrations have. What is this effect?
(a) They emphasize man's individuality.
(b) They bring people together with unusual dynamics.
(c) They increase man's sense of his mortality.
(d) They stop the flow of time.
5. What role does the Mexican man play in society?
(a) He seeks to expand his control in the world.
(b) He wants to raise Mexico to a place of prominence in the world.
(c) He defends everything that he has.
(d) He protects everything entrusted to him.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does solitude assume a purifying, almost purgative, quality for the Mexican?
2. How do Mexicans avoid the dangers of romantic relationships, according to Paz?
3. Paz discusses the result of persecution on the pachuco. What is that result?
4. According to Paz, what is death in modern thought?
5. From what does a fiesta free the Mexican, in Paz's understanding?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the character of the Mexican's solitude? How does it differ from the solitude of the North American?
2. In Chapter Three, the following idea is presented: "There is nothing so joyous as a Mexican fiesta, but there is also nothing so sorrowful. Fiesta night is also a night of mourning" (Chapter 3, page 53). What does that mean?
3. How do Mexicans view their bodies? How does their view contribute to their wish for privacy?
4. "The pachuco has lost his whole inheritance: Language, religion, customs, and beliefs. He is left with only a body and a soul with which to confront the elements" (Chapter One, pg 15). Is that a true statement?
5. What is the Mexican's ideal of manliness? How does it affect his interactions with other people?
6. What mutual problem do both the Mexican and the North American face? What is the solution to that problem?
7. How does North American culture view the pachuco? Does the pachuco accept or reject that culture's perception of him?
8. What is the Mexican view of death? When does death become saddest?
9. Who is the Chingada? What relation does she hold to every Mexican, whether male or female?
10. What is the greatest horror that a worker suffers? Do you think that is true?
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