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

2. How are the worlds of terrorism and mass production similar to each other? (Chapter Four).
(a) They are worlds of things.
(b) They focus on the individuality of man.
(c) Their primary catalyst is guilt.
(d) However subtle, they use persecution.

3. From what does a fiesta free the Mexican, in Paz's understanding?
(a) The sense of unfulfilled desires.
(b) The drudgery of common living.
(c) The horror of human thought.
(d) The explosive desires he carries in his heart.

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

5. What is Paz's opinion about the physical features distinguishing Mexicans from North Americans?
(a) People are too distracted by them.
(b) They are more important than commonly believed.
(c) People do not understand their significance.
(d) They are not as important as commonly believed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are a woman's instincts those of a species rather than her own?

3. According to the tribe of the Chamulas, what is a chulel?

4. What does the Mexican value in art, religion, and politics?

5. How did liberalism and democracy function in South American countries?

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