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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 duality does the pachuco represent?
(a) A clown whose purpose is terror.
(b) A victim obsessed with revenge.
(c) A saint deeply involved in scandal.
(d) A fiend whose trademark is hearty laughter.

2. To follow Paz's previous argument, what is the result when one Mexican confides in another?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Affection.
(c) Dishonor.
(d) Alienation.

3. What is the French sociologists' interpretation of the fiesta?
(a) The people's disregard for obligations enhances their sense of time.
(b) The people's disregard for death increases their sense of life.
(c) The people's misunderstanding of life increases their desire for death.
(d) The people's squandering of money appeases the gods.

4. Other than solitude, what does the Mexican often feel in relation to other peoples?
(a) Complete isolation.
(b) Intellectualism.
(c) Inferiority.
(d) Weakness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Aside from being an excess, what does the fiesta revolt against?

2. On which group of people were Paz's thoughts focused?

3. Through dissimulation, what does a Mexican attempt to do?

4. What mentality does Paz attribute to the Mexican?

5. What is the Mexican concept of work?

(see the answer key)

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