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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. When Aztec victims were sacrificed, why did their deaths lack personal meaning?
(a) No one was left to mourn for them.
(b) Any sacrifice to the gods was seen impersonally.
(c) They were at the bottom of the social scale.
(d) Their lives did not belong to them.

2. Why are a woman's instincts those of a species rather than her own?
(a) As an inferior person, she does not have individual instincts.
(b) Her individual instincts are obliterated because of her proximity to the Divine.
(c) She is the incarnation of the life force, which itself is impersonal.
(d) She must have instincts of the species in order to perpetuate the race.

3. What mentality does Paz attribute to the Mexican?
(a) Leader.
(b) Master.
(c) Victim.
(d) Servant.

4. According to Paz, who is most fascinated by death?
(a) The old.
(b) The infant.
(c) The dying.
(d) The youth.

5. What analogy does Paz use to explain Mexico's history?
(a) A man searching for his parents.
(b) A child without a future.
(c) A child without a family.
(d) A man searching for his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the philosophy of progress treat death?

2. Why were the Indians not outraged that their religions were replaced with Catholicism? (Chapter Five).

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

4. How do Mexicans avoid the dangers of romantic relationships, according to Paz?

5. In Paz's estimation, woman is a living representation of which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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