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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when a person says "at this moment"? (Chapter Nine, page 209).
(a) The moment is already passed.
(b) He isolates that moment from the flow of time.
(c) He does not understand the moment in which he is living.
(d) He briefly stops time.

2. How does solitude assume a purifying, almost purgative, quality for the Mexican?
(a) It concentrates the Mexican's attention on the Divine rather than on the human.
(b) It is proof of future communion with others.
(c) It serves to mitigate his guilt (a Catholicism concept).
(d) It wipes away his anger toward others.

3. According to Paz, who is most fascinated by death?
(a) The old.
(b) The dying.
(c) The infant.
(d) The youth.

4. Paz discusses the result of persecution on the pachuco. What is that result?
(a) It strengthens his anger.
(b) It makes him distrustful.
(c) It makes him stronger.
(d) It breaks his solitude.

5. In Paz's philosophy, why must Mexicans face reality alone?
(a) They have alienated themselves from the world.
(b) They do not have a comprehensive philosophy of the self.
(c) The modern world no longer has any ideas.
(d) They are not in step with the rest of the intellectual world.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Paz, how does a sterile society try to save itself?

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

3. What is the Spanish view of women in contrast to the Mexican?

4. How did Paz consider his philosophical questions?

5. In their relation to their world, to whom does Paz compare Mexicans?

(see the answer key)

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