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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) Purity.
(b) Equality.
(c) Form.
(d) Originality.

2. According to Paz, what does it mean when a person is alone?
(a) He is superior.
(b) He is different.
(c) He can never relate to other people.
(d) He is inferior.

3. According to Paz, what is death in modern thought?
(a) The avoidable end to a wasted life.
(b) The predictable end to a natural progression.
(c) The putting to rest of all sorrow.
(d) The end of all unworthy men.

4. When does the pachuco become his true self?
(a) When he is surrounded by fellow Mexicans.
(b) When he is alone.
(c) When his life explodes.
(d) When he is in Mexico.

5. As Paz uderstands it, what is the Mexican's relation to death?
(a) Intimate and heartbreaking.
(b) Emotionally remote.
(c) Intimate but empty.
(d) Sacrificial.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does a fiesta free the Mexican, in Paz's understanding?

2. What duality does the pachuco represent?

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

4. What is the advantage of the North American view of women in relation to the Spanish view?

5. In his obsession with hygiene, work, and health, what does the North American miss?

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