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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following contributed to making colonialism alive and relevant?

2. Why was unemployment high in Mexico at the time that Paz was writing?

3. When did the Plan of Ayala go into effect?

4. Which of the following created the Spanish monarchy?

5. Who were the last people to enter the Valley of Mexico?

Short Essay Questions

1. Despite Mexico's advancements, where does she still stand on the world spectrum? How can she change her placement?

2. How does unemployment on the farms affect the cities? How does it slow all of Mexico's development?

3. Mexico has entered a new phase of thinking and history. How does Paz explain that phase?

4. How does Paz define "Mexicanism"? How does it mesh with the individual whom he had described earlier?

5. Pulling from the ideas of Jose Gaos, Paz, speaks of the physical duality in Mexico. What does that mean? What significance does that idea have?

6. How did Catholicism reduce the Indian converts into passive believers? How was that a significant blow?

7. What does Paz think of the Soviet Union? How does it compare to Mexico?

8. When did Independence begin in Mexico? How was it similar to or different from the Conquest?

9. What did Article 3 of the new Constitution mandate? What troubles did that Article cause?

10. What does Paz say about the national differences among Central and South American nations? How does that tie into their relationship with Spain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In modern Mexico, what are the contrasting ways of thinking (pg 119-20)? In that context, is Spanish heritage good? How do those two mindsets continue to influence current politics and thought?

Essay Topic 2

Who is the Chingada? What roots does she have in Aztec religion and history? Like her opposite, the Virgin of Guadalupe, is redemption possible?

Essay Topic 3

Spain accepted all forms of the Renaissance and then closed itself off to further influence. How did that affect the Conquest? How does that continue to affect Mexico's philosophical and religious development?

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