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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. What familial relationship does Paz equate with solitude?
(a) Being childless.
(b) Having no male relatives.
(c) Having no siblings.
(d) Being an orphan.

2. What masculine trait enters into the idea of feminine modesty?
(a) Love.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Strength.
(d) Protection.

3. From what does a fiesta free the Mexican, in Paz's understanding?
(a) The horror of human thought.
(b) The drudgery of common living.
(c) The explosive desires he carries in his heart.
(d) The sense of unfulfilled desires.

4. When Paz first arrived in the United States, what surprised him most about the people?
(a) Their confidence in the future of the nation.
(b) Their honesty and sense of community.
(c) Their confidence and self-assurance.
(d) Their lack of openness.

5. In Latin America, what was the importance of Jose Gorostiza's poem, Muerte sin Fin?
(a) It presented the best example of the Mexican fascination with horror.
(b) It was the last example of the colonial mindset.
(c) It was the best evidence of a truly modern awareness.
(d) It presented the Spanish conquest through the eyes of modernity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the French sociologists' interpretation of the fiesta?

2. What does the Mexican value in art, religion, and politics?

3. How do Mexicans perceive an opening-up of one's self?

4. What did Paz find in the actions and faces of North Americans?

5. According to Paz, what does it mean when a person is alone?

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