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

2. Chapter Three begins with the great effect that fiestas and public celebrations have. What is this effect?
(a) They bring people together with unusual dynamics.
(b) They increase man's sense of his mortality.
(c) They stop the flow of time.
(d) They emphasize man's individuality.

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

4. Paz says that during critical moments in a nation's development, the people ask themselves a critical question. What is that question?
(a) How do we want the future to look?
(b) Who should lead us?
(c) How can we move forward?
(d) Who are we and how can we fulfill this obligation?

5. What familial relationship does Paz equate with solitude?
(a) Having no male relatives.
(b) Being an orphan.
(c) Having no siblings.
(d) Being childless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Paz's opinion about Western respect for life?

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

3. What masculine trait enters into the idea of feminine modesty?

4. How do Mexicans perceive an opening-up of one's self?

5. Why are people sad if a person dies badly (Chapter Three)?

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