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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Sons of La Malinche.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the evil words a sign and seal?
(a) They pull men out of their solitude.
(b) They identify fellow Mexicans among strangers.
(c) They seal the intention of the speaker.
(d) They project the result that they will bring.

2. In their relation to their world, to whom does Paz compare Mexicans?
(a) Orientals.
(b) Nigerians.
(c) Peruvians.
(d) Germans.

3. What is the Spanish view of women in contrast to the Mexican?
(a) Women are decent and modest.
(b) Women are idols.
(c) Women are shaped by the minds of men.
(d) Women are wild and lecherous.

4. Above all other definitions, who is the Chingada?
(a) The representation of violated womanhood.
(b) A mythical mother.
(c) A living mother.
(d) The representation of virginity.

5. Why did the sense of Mexicanism "float" in the air of Los Angeles?
(a) People struggled to retain Mexican identity in a foreign land.
(b) It was an ethereal sense of nationality.
(c) No one truly knew that it meant to be Mexican.
(d) It did not mix with the North American efficiency or precision.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the fiesta of Grito celebrated?

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

3. Paz states that a Mexican utters the words that are considered most evil when which of the following occurs?

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

5. Why are woman considered inferior people?

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