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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Day of the Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the fiesta of Grito, why do the people shout for one hour, in Paz's interpretation?
(a) To express their rage.
(b) So the name of Grito cannot be heard.
(c) To express great joy.
(d) So they can be silent the rest of the year.

2. How is the myth of the "long-suffering Mexican woman" created?
(a) When the woman becomes impassive in the face of suffering.
(b) When the woman is most vulnerable to attack.
(c) When the woman overcomes her natural frailty.
(d) When the woman's natural frailty becomes a virtue.

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

4. What do a pachuco's actions and lifestyle demonstrate?
(a) His dissatisfaction with North American culture.
(b) His anger at a culture that will not assimilate him.
(c) His will to remain different.
(d) His desire to return to Mexico.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Paz's estimation, what vital word has the Mexican forgotten?

3. What duality does the pachuco represent?

4. What is the novelty of the pachuco clothing?

5. Why is death a part of the fiesta (Chapter Three)?

(see the answer key)

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