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

2. What did Paz find in the actions and faces of North Americans?
(a) A fear about the survival of their society.
(b) A faith in man's intrinsic goodness and its effects on their culture.
(c) An unrealistic optimism about the future.
(d) A faith in their society and confidence in its survival.

3. In Paz's thought, what does a study of the great myths reveal?
(a) Man will never truly be saved.
(b) Man has broken the order of the universe.
(c) Man can only be saved by something other than himself.
(d) Man will continually become better than he is now.

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

5. How does Paz differentiate between views of the body in Mexico and North America?
(a) Mexicans are afraid of their bodies, while North Americans are modest.
(b) Mexicans are ashamed of their bodies, while North Americans live with physical exuberance.
(c) Mexicans live with abandon while North Americans are prudent.
(d) Mexicans are modest, while North Americans are afraid of their bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the novelty of the pachuco clothing?

2. What is the Spanish view of women in contrast to the Mexican?

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

4. What is the most valued trait in both the military and political realms?

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

(see the answer key)

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