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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. What is Paz's opinion about the physical features distinguishing Mexicans from North Americans?
(a) People are too distracted by them.
(b) They are not as important as commonly believed.
(c) They are more important than commonly believed.
(d) People do not understand their significance.

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

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

4. How did the Spanish Conquest treat religion?
(a) Spain was defending the faith.
(b) Spain was protecting the Mesoamerican religions.
(c) The Conquest did not relate to religion.
(d) Spain was integrating Mesoamerican religions.

5. Why do Mexicans tell lies (Chapter Two)?
(a) To create confusion.
(b) Merely for the enjoyment of it.
(c) To protect the other person.
(d) To hide themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What connotation does the verb, chingar, carry?

2. Above all other definitions, who is the Chingada?

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

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

5. What role does the Mexican man play in society?

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