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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 pachuco present himself to the people around him?
(a) As a lost man.
(b) As a solitary, challenging figure.
(c) As one of the group.
(d) As a man searching for a home.

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

3. In Paz's estimation, woman is a living representation of which of the following?
(a) Life overpowered by death.
(b) Man's incomplete nature.
(c) The strangeness of the world.
(d) Life.

4. Who was Emiliano Zapata?
(a) The leader of the Revolution of the South.
(b) The replacement in Diaz's regime.
(c) The military leader in Diaz's regime.
(d) The first leader of the Revolution.

5. Who were the last people to enter the Valley of Mexico?
(a) Aztecs.
(b) Mexicans.
(c) Spaniards.
(d) Nahuatls.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Aztec victims were sacrificed, why did their deaths lack personal meaning?

3. Who authored. the book, Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico?

4. In the discussion of limited choice that Paz discusses, what controls desire?

5. According to Paz, what is the "contemporary crisis"? (Chapter Seven, page 172).

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