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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paz mean by the word, "community"?
(a) A gathering of people who are invested in each other.
(b) A place of safety, especially for women and children.
(c) A place of liberty where men recognize themselves in each other.
(d) A place of stable government and economy.

2. In Paz's argument, how have tradition and religion always been presented to the Mexicans?
(a) As things leading to their spiritual salvation.
(b) As things that will solidify their national identity.
(c) As things that stifle their individuality.
(d) As things to be held lightly or discarded.

3. What was sacrificed when Porfirio Diaz took power and subdued anarchy?
(a) Liberty.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Equality.
(d) Possibility.

4. When Aztec victims were sacrificed, why did their deaths lack personal meaning?
(a) No one was left to mourn for them.
(b) Their lives did not belong to them.
(c) They were at the bottom of the social scale.
(d) Any sacrifice to the gods was seen impersonally.

5. What is "the profoundest fact of the human condition"? (Chapter Nine, page 195).
(a) Solitude.
(b) Anger.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the closure to Chapter Two, the reader sees what shadow spreading out over Mexico?

2. How does modern society deny the very nature of love? (Chapter Nine).

3. When did the Plan of Ayala go into effect?

4. What happens when a person says "at this moment"? (Chapter Nine, page 209).

5. Why does the modern novelist rarely choose the worker as his protagonist?

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