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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 From Independence to the Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Spaniards find when they arrived in South America?
(a) Autonomous, refined civilizations.
(b) A single ruling power.
(c) Scattered groups of people.
(d) Uneducated, struggling clans.

2. What happens when the Mexican dissimulates?
(a) He nearly ceases to exist.
(b) He becomes estranged from society.
(c) He preserves his individuality intact.
(d) He merges with the common people.

3. According to Paz, why does the liar tell lies to himself?
(a) He is afraid of the world.
(b) He is afraid of himself.
(c) He is afraid of finding truth in other people.
(d) He does not know the truth.

4. How did Paz consider his philosophical questions?
(a) As an excuse for not facing reality.
(b) As meaningful only if they addressed the question of Mexican identity.
(c) As the only means to find answers.
(d) As a waste of time.

5. Where does Paz state that the Mexican's indifference hides his life force?
(a) Behind a death mask.
(b) Behind a veil of rationalism.
(c) Within a jumble of emotions.
(d) In silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the worker lack mystery?

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

3. Above all other definitions, who is the Chingada?

4. To follow Paz's previous argument, what is the result when one Mexican confides in another?

5. Why were the Indians not outraged that their religions were replaced with Catholicism? (Chapter Five).

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