The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Day of the Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter Three begins with the great effect that fiestas and public celebrations have. What is this effect?
(a) They stop the flow of time.
(b) They bring people together with unusual dynamics.
(c) They increase man's sense of his mortality.
(d) They emphasize man's individuality.

2. In Paz's understanding of genders, how do Mexican women become like men?
(a) In love.
(b) Through sacrifice.
(c) Through self-denial.
(d) Through suffering.

3. What is the French sociologists' interpretation of the fiesta?
(a) The people's disregard for obligations enhances their sense of time.
(b) The people's misunderstanding of life increases their desire for death.
(c) The people's disregard for death increases their sense of life.
(d) The people's squandering of money appeases the gods.

4. What do a pachuco's actions and lifestyle demonstrate?
(a) His dissatisfaction with North American culture.
(b) His will to remain different.
(c) His anger at a culture that will not assimilate him.
(d) His desire to return to Mexico.

5. Paz discusses the result of persecution on the pachuco. What is that result?
(a) It breaks his solitude.
(b) It makes him distrustful.
(c) It strengthens his anger.
(d) It makes him stronger.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Paz consider his philosophical questions?

2. What is the Spanish view of women in contrast to the Mexican?

3. When Paz first arrived in the United States, what surprised him most about the people?

4. According to Paz's argument, what is the source of the North American's irritation with the pachuco?

5. From what does a fiesta free the Mexican, in Paz's understanding?

(see the answer key)

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