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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question did Edmundo O'Gorman try to answer?
(a) Who are the Mexicans as a people?
(b) Where does the future lie?
(c) What is Mexico?
(d) What comprises America?

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

3. What is the French sociologists' interpretation of the fiesta?
(a) The people's disregard for obligations enhances their sense of time.
(b) The people's squandering of money appeases the gods.
(c) The people's misunderstanding of life increases their desire for death.
(d) The people's disregard for death increases their sense of life.

4. How does the Indian perceive salvation? (Chapter Five).
(a) As part of society and the cosmos, as well as individual.
(b) As something open to anyone who would believe.
(c) As something solely individual.
(d) As something attainable only by a few people.

5. Why have Mexican culture and politics vacillated from one extreme to another? (Chapter Seven, page 157).
(a) Because there has never been a strong Mexican leader.
(b) Because Mexicans deny their Spanish and Indian heritage.
(c) Because Mexicans cannot invent their history from the beginning.
(d) Because Mexicans have difficulty synthesizing experiences.

Short Answer Questions

1. Following the Revolution, why was socialist education not widely implemented in Mexico?

2. As Paz uderstands it, what is the Mexican's relation to death?

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

4. When Aztec victims were sacrificed, why did their deaths lack personal meaning?

5. From what does a fiesta free the Mexican, in Paz's understanding?

(see the answer key)

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