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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Sons of La Malinche.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What connotation does the verb, chingar, carry?
(a) Violation.
(b) Mythical power.
(c) Failure.
(d) Disaster.

2. Through dissimulation, what does a Mexican attempt to do?
(a) Become himself in contradistinction to others.
(b) Withdraw from society to save his individuality.
(c) Become invisible and save his individuality.
(d) Share his individuality with others to make it real.

3. How are the worlds of terrorism and mass production similar to each other? (Chapter Four).
(a) They focus on the individuality of man.
(b) However subtle, they use persecution.
(c) They are worlds of things.
(d) Their primary catalyst is guilt.

4. Why did the sense of Mexicanism "float" in the air of Los Angeles?
(a) It did not mix with the North American efficiency or precision.
(b) People struggled to retain Mexican identity in a foreign land.
(c) It was an ethereal sense of nationality.
(d) No one truly knew that it meant to be Mexican.

5. What analogy does Paz use to explain Mexico's history?
(a) A child without a future.
(b) A man searching for his wife.
(c) A man searching for his parents.
(d) A child without a family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the modern novelist rarely choose the worker as his protagonist?

2. How did Paz consider his philosophical questions?

3. Why do Mexicans tell lies (Chapter Two)?

4. In Paz's estimation, woman is a living representation of which of the following?

5. Why does the worker lack mystery?

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