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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 is the most valued trait in both the military and political realms?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Valor.
(c) Courage.
(d) Stoicism.

2. What does the pachuco represent in Paz's writing?
(a) One extreme at which the Mexican can arrive.
(b) The typical Mexican living in North American culture.
(c) The modern-day religious saint.
(d) One step along the path that a Mexican can take.

3. What masculine trait enters into the idea of feminine modesty?
(a) Strength.
(b) Love.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Protection.

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

5. How does the philosophy of progress treat death?
(a) It minimizes death.
(b) It pretends to make death disappear.
(c) It treats death as one more step in life.
(d) It disregards death entirely.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Paz's example of the village near Mitla, how is their yearly income spent?

2. Paz states that a Mexican utters the words that are considered most evil when which of the following occurs?

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

4. What did Paz find in the actions and faces of North Americans?

5. What makes the foreigner skeptical about Mexicans (Chapter Four)?

(see the answer key)

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