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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the child try to reestablish his bond with life that existed while he was in the womb?
(a) Through paternal love.
(b) Through maternal attention.
(c) By play and affection.
(d) By withdrawing into himself.

2. What economic goal did the Revolution have?
(a) To pull the nation out of poverty.
(b) To establish commerce and industry.
(c) To free Mexico from dependence on Spain.
(d) To improve the commerce that had already been established.

3. What did Manuel Gomez-Morin accomplish for the Revolution?
(a) He wrote the Plan of Ayala.
(b) He helped draft the new Constitution.
(c) He formulated the property laws.
(d) He led the greatest contingent of soldiers.

4. What does the Mexican value in art, religion, and politics?
(a) Equality.
(b) Originality.
(c) Purity.
(d) Form.

5. What horror did Cortez's rule not commit?
(a) Raping the indigenous women.
(b) Complete annihilation of the native peoples.
(c) Denying the conquered people a place in society.
(d) Forcing indigenous people to speak European Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What contributes to the power of the word, chingar, and all of its derivations?

2. In Paz's argument, how have tradition and religion always been presented to the Mexicans?

3. Why does poetry tend to eradicate history? (Chapter Seven).

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

5. From what does a fiesta free the Mexican, in Paz's understanding?

(see the answer key)

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