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

2. On which group of people were Paz's thoughts focused?
(a) Those who are conscious of themselves as Mexicans.
(b) Those who are focused on making Mexico a part of the world.
(c) Those who are seeking a better philosophy as Mexicans.
(d) The Mexican nation as a whole.

3. What role does the Mexican man play in society?
(a) He wants to raise Mexico to a place of prominence in the world.
(b) He defends everything that he has.
(c) He seeks to expand his control in the world.
(d) He protects everything entrusted to him.

4. What type of book did Xavier Villaurrutia write?
(a) A scientific explanation of death.
(b) Death-related poetry.
(c) Religious exhortations about life.
(d) Life-related poetry.

5. Why is the fiesta, at its core, a revolution?
(a) It has no regard for religious mores.
(b) It dissolves society.
(c) Man is finally free.
(d) It allows man to be something different.

Short Answer Questions

1. What duality does the pachuco represent?

2. In Latin America, what was the importance of Jose Gorostiza's poem, Muerte sin Fin?

3. According to Paz, what does it mean when a person is alone?

4. What is the novelty of the pachuco clothing?

5. How does solitude assume a purifying, almost purgative, quality for the Mexican?

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