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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 one factor that drives world markets?
(a) The low cost of raw materials, and the high cost of manufactured products.
(b) The inability of third-world markets to compete.
(c) The unequal distribution of raw materials.
(d) The unchallenged advantages of advanced countries.

2. What does Paz deem to be the first and most serious change that a man endures when he becomes a worker?
(a) He loses communion with his fellow man.
(b) He stops earning what he is worth.
(c) He loses his sense of the Divine.
(d) He loses his individuality.

3. According to Paz, what philosophical fact defines much of Mexico's history?
(a) The people adopted ideas, but did not invent their own.
(b) They overturned several of Spain's philosophical treatises.
(c) The people adopted some ideas and invented others.
(d) They had only two great thinkers.

4. What did the Spaniards find when they arrived in South America?
(a) Autonomous, refined civilizations.
(b) Scattered groups of people.
(c) Uneducated, struggling clans.
(d) A single ruling power.

5. In Latin America, what was the importance of Jose Gorostiza's poem, Muerte sin Fin?
(a) It presented the best example of the Mexican fascination with horror.
(b) It presented the Spanish conquest through the eyes of modernity.
(c) It was the best evidence of a truly modern awareness.
(d) It was the last example of the colonial mindset.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does Paz use to describe Mexico taking control from Spain?

2. According to Paz's argument, what is the source of the North American's irritation with the pachuco?

3. What role does the Mexican man play in society?

4. In Paz's philosophy, why must Mexicans face reality alone?

5. In Paz's estimation, woman is a living representation of which of the following?

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