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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should Mexicans recognize about their alienation from the world?
(a) It is unique to their country.
(b) It is shared by many people around the world.
(c) It has managed to cut them off completely.
(d) It can be reversed only by a charismatic leader.

2. How did Paz consider his philosophical questions?
(a) As the only means to find answers.
(b) As meaningful only if they addressed the question of Mexican identity.
(c) As an excuse for not facing reality.
(d) As a waste of time.

3. Through dissimulation, what does a Mexican attempt to do?
(a) Withdraw from society to save his individuality.
(b) Become himself in contradistinction to others.
(c) Become invisible and save his individuality.
(d) Share his individuality with others to make it real.

4. What is the most valued trait in both the military and political realms?
(a) Courage.
(b) Stoicism.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Valor.

5. Where have the great revolutions of the 20th Century occurred?
(a) In places with little modern culture.
(b) In backward countries.
(c) Among indigenous tribes.
(d) In large, wealthy countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important circumstance did early revolutionary governments not take into account?

2. How did the Spanish Conquest treat religion?

3. What is the advantage of the North American view of women in relation to the Spanish view?

4. Who was Emiliano Zapata?

5. Paz says that during critical moments in a nation's development, the people ask themselves a critical question. What is that question?

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