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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. How does a man become "like the angels" (Chapter Three, page 61)?
(a) By valuing life to its final moment.
(b) By opening fully to death, as well as to life.
(c) By running from death to an embracement of life.
(d) By entrusting everything to God.

2. Paz says that during critical moments in a nation's development, the people ask themselves a critical question. What is that question?
(a) Who are we and how can we fulfill this obligation?
(b) How can we move forward?
(c) How do we want the future to look?
(d) Who should lead us?

3. When Paz first arrived in the United States, what surprised him most about the people?
(a) Their lack of openness.
(b) Their honesty and sense of community.
(c) Their confidence in the future of the nation.
(d) Their confidence and self-assurance.

4. What masculine trait enters into the idea of feminine modesty?
(a) Protection.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Strength.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Paz, what is the Mexican's relationship with his fellow man?

2. Through dissimulation, what does a Mexican attempt to do?

3. In the book's argument, what happens when a Mexican woman is passive?

4. How does the pachuco present himself to the people around him?

5. On which group of people were Paz's thoughts focused?

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