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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the difference between the Mexican killer and the modern one?
(a) The Mexican kills as an expression of love.
(b) Only the Mexican killer expresses true hatred.
(c) The Mexican kills a man, not an object.
(d) The Mexican obliterates an object, not a man.

2. Aside from being an excess, what does the fiesta revolt against?
(a) Form.
(b) Death.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Life.

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

4. During the Revolution, whom did the intelligentsia make the focal point of its activities?
(a) The common people.
(b) Itself.
(c) Their new leaders.
(d) The new poets.

5. Why is a study of colonialism important in understanding Mexican history?
(a) The nation's beginnings were heavily influenced by North Americans.
(b) The nation was founded through a peaceful Spanish immersion into Indian culture.
(c) The nation was founded by a Spanish conquest of Indians.
(d) The nation began through the colonization of several surrounding nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Paz, what is death in modern thought?

2. What type of book did Xavier Villaurrutia write?

3. What did Moctezuma think as the Spaniards approached?

4. When Paz first arrived in the United States, what surprised him most about the people?

5. Why is death a part of the fiesta (Chapter Three)?

(see the answer key)

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