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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. In Asia and Africa, what two seemingly-contradictory ideologies are being used?
2. What is one factor that drives world markets?
3. Which of the following contributed to making colonialism alive and relevant?
4. Who authored. the book, Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico?
5. When Paz sees that Mexicans return to their tradition, what do they remember?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why could Mexico not have progressed as far as she has today if she were working within capitalism?
2. When did Independence begin in Mexico? How was it similar to or different from the Conquest?
3. Paz asserts that every revolution attempts to restore the order that an oppressor has twisted or disregarded altogether. How was that true in Mexico?
4. What is Paz's definition of "community"? How is that definition knowingly idealistic?
5. Mexico has entered a new phase of thinking and history. How does Paz explain that phase?
6. What role did Catholicism play in the lives of the conquering Spaniards? Was that role contradictory?
7. How does Paz define "Mexicanism"? How does it mesh with the individual whom he had described earlier?
8. What role did Jose Vasconcelos play in modern education? From Paz's descriptions, what is his opinion of Vasconcelos?
9. How does Paz explain the suicides of the Aztec people? Is it a reasonable explanation?
10. What does Paz think of the Soviet Union? How does it compare to Mexico?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Paz's arguments, how important is the Mexican sense of place? What affects it? What is its most important aspect? Explain the sense of place in the greater context of the Mexican mindset that Paz presents throughout the book.
Essay Topic 2
"Catholicism offered a refuge to the descendants of those who had seen the extermination of their ruling classes, the destruction of their temples and manuscripts, and the suppression of the superior forms of their culture; but for the same reason that it was decadent in Europe, it denied them any chance of expressing their singularity" (Chapter Five, pg 105). What does that mean? How does it fit in with the idea of conquered peoples being assigned a passive role?
Essay Topic 3
What is the Mexican view of privacy? Why does Paz defend it at such cost? What part does lying play in his defense? Is that accepted?
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