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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. How does Paz differentiate between views of the body in Mexico and North America?
(a) Mexicans are afraid of their bodies, while North Americans are modest.
(b) Mexicans live with abandon while North Americans are prudent.
(c) Mexicans are modest, while North Americans are afraid of their bodies.
(d) Mexicans are ashamed of their bodies, while North Americans live with physical exuberance.

2. Why are woman considered inferior people?
(a) They are not as intelligent as men.
(b) They are not as reticent as men.
(c) They are too emotionally attached.
(d) They open themselves up in submission.

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

4. Why did Catholicism drastically change the Aztec view of life?
(a) It placed man's salvation outside himself.
(b) It placed a merciful God in charge.
(c) It emphasized man's humanity and personhood.
(d) It saw life linearly rather than cyclically.

5. Why are people sad if a person dies badly (Chapter Three)?
(a) There will be no rest for his soul.
(b) The death should reflect the life.
(c) The life is less important than the death.
(d) There is no honor in an untoward death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does solitude assume a purifying, almost purgative, quality for the Mexican?

2. During the fiesta of Grito, why do the people shout for one hour, in Paz's interpretation?

3. Other than solitude, what does the Mexican often feel in relation to other peoples?

4. In his obsession with hygiene, work, and health, what does the North American miss?

5. Paz says that during critical moments in a nation's development, the people ask themselves a critical question. What is that question?

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