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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 Mexican Masks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Mexicans perceive an opening-up of one's self?
(a) As a sign of strength.
(b) As a moment of truth.
(c) As infidelity to the human spirit.
(d) As a betrayal or weakness.

2. What model do Mexicans prefer that the woman follow?
(a) The model of The Virgin Mary - chaste and kind.
(b) The model of ancient Mexican goddesses.
(c) A model of strength, praise, and fortitude.
(d) A general model of decency, secrecy, and long-suffering.

3. As the closure to Chapter Two, the reader sees what shadow spreading out over Mexico?
(a) The shadow of Catholicism.
(b) The shadow of truth.
(c) The shadow of dissimulation.
(d) The shadow of Nobody.

4. What is the most valued trait in both the military and political realms?
(a) Stoicism.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Valor.
(d) Courage.

5. Why are a woman's instincts those of a species rather than her own?
(a) She must have instincts of the species in order to perpetuate the race.
(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) As an inferior person, she does not have individual instincts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As Paz begins Chapter Two, he says that the Mexican is always afraid to glance at his neighbor. What reason does he give for that?

3. According to Paz, why does the liar tell lies to himself?

4. What happens when the Mexican dissimulates?

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

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