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

2. Why are a woman's instincts those of a species rather than her own?
(a) Her individual instincts are obliterated because of her proximity to the Divine.
(b) As an inferior person, she does not have individual instincts.
(c) She is the incarnation of the life force, which itself is impersonal.
(d) She must have instincts of the species in order to perpetuate the race.

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

4. Why did Catholicism drastically change the Aztec view of life?
(a) It placed a merciful God in charge.
(b) It emphasized man's humanity and personhood.
(c) It saw life linearly rather than cyclically.
(d) It placed man's salvation outside himself.

5. In Paz's understanding of genders, how do Mexican women become like men?
(a) Through self-denial.
(b) In love.
(c) Through sacrifice.
(d) Through suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. As explained in Chapter One, who are the pachucos?

2. Paz discusses the result of persecution on the pachuco. What is that result?

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

4. In Latin America, what was the importance of Jose Gorostiza's poem, Muerte sin Fin?

5. What is the French sociologists' interpretation of the fiesta?

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