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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 humanity treat the opposites that life presents? (Chapter Nine).
(a) Humanity seeks to reconcile them.
(b) Humanity seeks to escape.
(c) Humanity pretends that they are not opposing.
(d) Humanity embraces them in the quest for life.

2. Aside from being an excess, what does the fiesta revolt against?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Life.
(c) Form.
(d) Death.

3. In Jose Gaos' thought, what unique opportunity do young people have through their education?
(a) Modifying Spanish to meet the needs of the South Americans.
(b) Moving Mexico into the world sphere.
(c) Creating their own philosophy.
(d) Rebuilding their political system.

4. How did the Aztecs' final struggle manifest itself?
(a) As the last battle.
(b) In destruction of their own property.
(c) In suicide.
(d) In silence.

5. Why was Diaz's regime in a precarious position regarding positivist philosophy?
(a) Because the common people vehemently opposed the philosophy.
(b) Because only about half the regime favored the philosophy.
(c) Because it adopted rather than fathered the philosophy.
(d) Because it could not afford to support such a philosophy when the regime itself was so new.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the tribe of the Chamulas, what is a chulel?

2. How did Paz consider his philosophical questions?

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

4. What did the Spaniards find when they arrived in South America?

5. What was the motto of positivism?

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