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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. Why do Mexicans tell lies (Chapter Two)?
(a) To create confusion.
(b) To hide themselves.
(c) To protect the other person.
(d) Merely for the enjoyment of it.

2. How does the pachuco present himself to the people around him?
(a) As a solitary, challenging figure.
(b) As a man searching for a home.
(c) As a lost man.
(d) As one of the group.

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

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

5. Why did the sense of Mexicanism "float" in the air of Los Angeles?
(a) People struggled to retain Mexican identity in a foreign land.
(b) It did not mix with the North American efficiency or precision.
(c) It was an ethereal sense of nationality.
(d) No one truly knew that it meant to be Mexican.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What duality does the pachuco represent?

4. According to Paz, what philosophical fact defines much of Mexico's history?

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

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