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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one factor that guided the Revolution to prioritize tradition?
(a) The large number of supporters over the age of 50.
(b) Its belief in the value of the past.
(c) Its fear of the future.
(d) The workers did not belong to the city or the country, and so they did not have any tradition.

2. How does a man become "like the angels" (Chapter Three, page 61)?
(a) By opening fully to death, as well as to life.
(b) By entrusting everything to God.
(c) By valuing life to its final moment.
(d) By running from death to an embracement of life.

3. 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.

4. Why have Mexican culture and politics vacillated from one extreme to another? (Chapter Seven, page 157).
(a) Because Mexicans deny their Spanish and Indian heritage.
(b) Because Mexicans have difficulty synthesizing experiences.
(c) Because there has never been a strong Mexican leader.
(d) Because Mexicans cannot invent their history from the beginning.

5. In their relation to their world, to whom does Paz compare Mexicans?
(a) Germans.
(b) Nigerians.
(c) Orientals.
(d) Peruvians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mexico lacks basic industries except for one - what is it?

2. Where have the great revolutions of the 20th Century occurred?

3. When does intimacy sprout among Mexicans?

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

5. How does Paz differentiate between views of the body in Mexico and North America?

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