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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. According to Trotsky, what should happen if the Revolution does not break out in advanced nations following World War II?
2. In Paz's estimation, why do the common people follow their revolutionary leaders?
3. What horror did Cortez's rule not commit?
4. Following the Revolution, why was socialist education not widely implemented in Mexico?
5. What did the Spaniards find when they arrived in South America?
Short Essay Questions
1. Paz asserts that every revolution attempts to restore the order that an oppressor has twisted or disregarded altogether. How was that true in Mexico?
2. How did Catholicism reduce the Indian converts into passive believers? How was that a significant blow?
3. Despite Mexico's advancements, where does she still stand on the world spectrum? How can she change her placement?
4. What did Article 3 of the new Constitution mandate? What troubles did that Article cause?
5. What does Paz say about the national differences among Central and South American nations? How does that tie into their relationship with Spain?
6. How does Paz define "Mexicanism"? How does it mesh with the individual whom he had described earlier?
7. How does unemployment on the farms affect the cities? How does it slow all of Mexico's development?
8. What is Paz's definition of "community"? How is that definition knowingly idealistic?
9. Why was the Aztec nation able to unify so many diverse tribes? How were they quite skilled with that type of action?
10. What role did religion play in ancient South American cultures? Did Catholicism change that role?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the gender roles explained throughout the book? Given the culture and the time, what are the gender expectations? Who acts against those expectations?
Essay Topic 2
What is Mexico's relation to the rest of the world? How is it different from the past? What are Paz's hopes and fears for the future? Do you agree or disagree with his ideas?
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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