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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 From Independence to the Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Reform want to justify itself?
(a) Through the future.
(b) Through its changes.
(c) Through its popularity.
(d) Through its past.

2. How does solitude assume a purifying, almost purgative, quality for the Mexican?
(a) It concentrates the Mexican's attention on the Divine rather than on the human.
(b) It wipes away his anger toward others.
(c) It serves to mitigate his guilt (a Catholicism concept).
(d) It is proof of future communion with others.

3. Why were the Indians not outraged that their religions were replaced with Catholicism? (Chapter Five).
(a) Because they liked Catholicism better.
(b) Because they had been reconnected to the world.
(c) Because they were not very connected to their gods.
(d) Because their gods had betrayed them when Cortez attacked.

4. How did the Revolution relate to reality?
(a) It denied reality.
(b) It brought about a new idea of reality.
(c) It was a sheer explosion of reality.
(d) It subtly altered the past idea of reality.

5. How did liberalism and democracy function in South American countries?
(a) As the breath of fresh air, politically speaking.
(b) As an impetus to move the countries into modernity.
(c) As a veneer for the workings of colonialism.
(d) As the new structure of governments around the continent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Paz, what must be the first step toward reform?

3. What mentality does Paz attribute to the Mexican?

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

5. What duality does the pachuco represent?

(see the answer key)

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