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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. In Paz's opinion, when is a person most likely to see himself as precious and unique?
(a) When he is in love.
(b) At the end of his life.
(c) During adolescence.
(d) In childhood.

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

3. What is Paz's opinion about Western respect for life?
(a) It is truthful and realistic.
(b) It illustrates man's limitations.
(c) It is not convincing.
(d) It is either hypocritical or incomplete.

4. In Paz's estimation, what vital word has the Mexican forgotten?
(a) The word that allows him to reach out to others.
(b) The word of love given to him by his mother.
(c) The word tying him to life forces of creativity and destruction.
(d) The word that gives him peace with all others.

5. What did Paz find in the actions and faces of North Americans?
(a) A faith in their society and confidence in its survival.
(b) An unrealistic optimism about the future.
(c) A fear about the survival of their society.
(d) A faith in man's intrinsic goodness and its effects on their culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the philosophy of progress treat death?

2. What duality does the pachuco represent?

3. Why do Mexicans tell lies (Chapter Two)?

4. When does the pachuco become his true self?

5. Why did the sense of Mexicanism "float" in the air of Los Angeles?

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