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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. How did the Spanish Conquest treat religion?
2. What has happened to the former plurality of ideas and customs? (Chapter Seven).
3. Whom did Paz call the "guardian of freedom and traitor to his country"? (Chapter Six, page 125).
4. What was the purpose of the publishing house Fondo de Cultura Economica?
5. What is the value of Sor Juana's poem, "First Dream"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does unemployment on the farms affect the cities? How does it slow all of Mexico's development?
2. What happened when Spanish America separated itself from Spain? Given what Paz has stated throughout the book about that moment in history, draw your own conclusions about why that happened.
3. What role did Jose Vasconcelos play in modern education? From Paz's descriptions, what is his opinion of Vasconcelos?
4. Despite Mexico's advancements, where does she still stand on the world spectrum? How can she change her placement?
5. Pulling from the ideas of Jose Gaos, Paz, speaks of the physical duality in Mexico. What does that mean? What significance does that idea have?
6. How did Catholicism reduce the Indian converts into passive believers? How was that a significant blow?
7. What does Paz think of the Soviet Union? How does it compare to Mexico?
8. How was the Revolution similar to a fiesta? Because of any existing similarity, why do the people cling to that time in history? Can that be considered healthy?
9. When did Independence begin in Mexico? How was it similar to or different from the Conquest?
10. What role did Catholicism play in the lives of the conquering Spaniards? Was that role contradictory?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When does the author mention the Mexican ripping open his breast to reveal his emotions? What similarities and differences do those stories share? What emotions are encapsulated within them?
Essay Topic 2
Use this quote as the foundation for your essay: "We have been expelled from the center of the world, and are condemned to search for it through jungles and deserts or in the underground mazes of the labyrinth.
Essay Topic 3
What dualities did Sor Juana represent (philosophical, religious, gender-based)? What lasting influence did she have?
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