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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the French sociologists' interpretation of the fiesta?
2. To follow Paz's previous argument, what is the result when one Mexican confides in another?
3. How does Paz differentiate between views of the body in Mexico and North America?
4. How does a man become "like the angels" (Chapter Three, page 61)?
5. What happens when the Mexican dissimulates?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Mexicans view their bodies? How does their view contribute to their wish for privacy?
2. How does Paz explain the Mexican woman's role in society? How does that strip her of her personality?
3. What is the Mexican view of death? When does death become saddest?
4. What is the modern view of death? How is it dramatically different from the Aztec view?
5. When does Paz say that a nation questions itself? Is it necessary?
6. How does Mexico's poverty relate to the fiesta? What French interpretation did it inspire?
7. What is the world of terrorism like? How is it different from the past world of conquest and war?
8. What group of people did the author have in mind as he wrote the book? How and why did those people become important to him?
9. Who represents the conflict that Mexicans have not been able to solve? What effect does that conflict have on their culture?
10. What is the greatest horror that a worker suffers? Do you think that is true?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What inspired the author to write this book? What questions did he hope to answer, and did he answer them satisfactorily?
Essay Topic 2
Spain accepted all forms of the Renaissance and then closed itself off to further influence. How did that affect the Conquest? How does that continue to affect Mexico's philosophical and religious development?
Essay Topic 3
"Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts" (Chapter One, pg 20). What does that mean? Is it true?
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