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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mexico lacks basic industries except for one - what is it?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Wool.
(c) Steel.
(d) Forestry.

2. How did liberalism and democracy function in South American countries?
(a) As the new structure of governments around the continent.
(b) As an impetus to move the countries into modernity.
(c) As a veneer for the workings of colonialism.
(d) As the breath of fresh air, politically speaking.

3. When did the Plan of Ayala go into effect?
(a) July, 1937.
(b) January, 1909.
(c) March, 1951.
(d) November, 1911.

4. How did the Independence movement begin in South America?
(a) With Mexican housewives gradually overturning the governing body.
(b) With a small band of determined revolutionaries.
(c) Under the leadership of impassioned leader, San Martin.
(d) With simultaneous victories sweeping the continent.

5. In Asia and Africa, what two seemingly-contradictory ideologies are being used?
(a) World power and individualism.
(b) Future dreams and individualism.
(c) Colonial past and nationalism.
(d) Revolutionary aspiration and nationalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Paz, who is most fascinated by death?

2. What economic goal did the Revolution have?

3. During the Revolution, whom did the intelligentsia make the focal point of its activities?

4. What was an important element of all ancient cultures?

5. According to the tribe of the Chamulas, what is a chulel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Paz define "Mexicanism"? How does it mesh with the individual whom he had described earlier?

2. Throughout his career, what did Jorge Cuesta argue? What are the benefits and downfalls of his argument?

3. Mexico has entered a new phase of thinking and history. How does Paz explain that phase?

4. Paz asserts that every revolution attempts to restore the order that an oppressor has twisted or disregarded altogether. How was that true in Mexico?

5. What is Paz's definition of "community"? How is that definition knowingly idealistic?

6. What did Article 3 of the new Constitution mandate? What troubles did that Article cause?

7. Why did the new Constitution mandate that education be secular? How might that have made the Mexicans feel?

8. Who was Sor Juana? Why was she an unusual person both in South America and in old Spain?

9. Pulling from the ideas of Jose Gaos, Paz, speaks of the physical duality in Mexico. What does that mean? What significance does that idea have?

10. What is the role of the Mexican intelligentsia within society? How does it differ from the function of the intelligentsia within the United States and Europe; and which one is a better role?

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