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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Conquest of Colonialism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Other than solitude, what does the Mexican often feel in relation to other peoples?
(a) Complete isolation.
(b) Inferiority.
(c) Intellectualism.
(d) Weakness.

2. What does Paz deem to be the first and most serious change that a man endures when he becomes a worker?
(a) He loses his sense of the Divine.
(b) He loses his individuality.
(c) He loses communion with his fellow man.
(d) He stops earning what he is worth.

3. How does the philosophy of progress treat death?
(a) It pretends to make death disappear.
(b) It minimizes death.
(c) It disregards death entirely.
(d) It treats death as one more step in life.

4. Why were the Indians not outraged that their religions were replaced with Catholicism? (Chapter Five).
(a) Because they were not very connected to their gods.
(b) Because they had been reconnected to the world.
(c) Because they liked Catholicism better.
(d) Because their gods had betrayed them when Cortez attacked.

5. What is the novelty of the pachuco clothing?
(a) Its impracticality.
(b) Its disregard for current fashion.
(c) Its colors.
(d) Its exaggeration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Spanish view of women in contrast to the Mexican?

2. Why did Catholicism drastically change the Aztec view of life?

3. What is the value of Sor Juana's poem, "First Dream"?

4. What horror did Cortez's rule not commit?

5. Why does the worker lack mystery?

(see the answer key)

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