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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 connotation does the verb, chingar, carry?
(a) Disaster.
(b) Failure.
(c) Mythical power.
(d) Violation.

2. What does the pachuco represent in Paz's writing?
(a) One step along the path that a Mexican can take.
(b) The modern-day religious saint.
(c) The typical Mexican living in North American culture.
(d) One extreme at which the Mexican can arrive.

3. What is the difference between the Mexican killer and the modern one?
(a) The Mexican kills a man, not an object.
(b) The Mexican obliterates an object, not a man.
(c) The Mexican kills as an expression of love.
(d) Only the Mexican killer expresses true hatred.

4. What is the Spanish view of women in contrast to the Mexican?
(a) Women are wild and lecherous.
(b) Women are decent and modest.
(c) Women are idols.
(d) Women are shaped by the minds of men.

5. 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 misunderstanding of life increases their desire for death.
(c) The people's disregard for obligations enhances their sense of time.
(d) The people's squandering of money appeases the gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are a woman's instincts those of a species rather than her own?

2. What did Paz find in the actions and faces of North Americans?

3. Why are woman considered inferior people?

4. In Paz's thought, what does a study of the great myths reveal?

5. Who were the last people to enter the Valley of Mexico?

(see the answer key)

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