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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. What does the Mexican value in art, religion, and politics?
(a) Form.
(b) Originality.
(c) Equality.
(d) Purity.

2. According to Paz, why does the liar tell lies to himself?
(a) He is afraid of himself.
(b) He does not know the truth.
(c) He is afraid of finding truth in other people.
(d) He is afraid of the world.

3. Why did Catholicism drastically change the Aztec view of life?
(a) It emphasized man's humanity and personhood.
(b) It placed man's salvation outside himself.
(c) It placed a merciful God in charge.
(d) It saw life linearly rather than cyclically.

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

5. Why are people sad if a person dies badly (Chapter Three)?
(a) There is no honor in an untoward death.
(b) The life is less important than the death.
(c) There will be no rest for his soul.
(d) The death should reflect the life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is the fiesta, at its core, a revolution?

3. In Paz's opinion, when is a person most likely to see himself as precious and unique?

4. As the closure to Chapter Two, the reader sees what shadow spreading out over Mexico?

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

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