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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rodriguez say that the white students react to affirmative action?
(a) They blame him for it.
(b) They are sympathetic to it.
(c) They protest against it.
(d) They complain about it.

2. What does Rodriguez think skin color says about financial status?
(a) Dark-skinned people are rich.
(b) Dark-skinned people are poor.
(c) Light-skinned people are poor.
(d) Light-skinned people need to work less and get outside more.

3. Why does Rodriguez use the label "minority student"?
(a) To announce that he is proud of his ethnicity.
(b) To get sympathy from professors.
(c) To prove that Hispanics can succeed in school.
(d) To get scholarships.

4. What does Rodriguez think of his parents' ideas on religion?
(a) They are based on good Church teachings.
(b) They just do what the priest tells them to do.
(c) They are too simple.
(d) They are deep and profound.

5. How does Rodriguez's sister's friend challenge his ideas about complexion?
(a) She is dark-skinned but spends more time indoors than he does.
(b) She is light-skinned but spends more time outdoors than he does.
(c) She is black, but not poor.
(d) She is white, but not rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rodriguez's sister feel about her children's complexions?

2. According to Rodriguez, what do minority students need to succeed in college?

3. In Credo, Chapter 3, what does Rodriguez do to change his ideas about religion?

4. What do the Hispanic college students ask Rodriguez to do?

5. What is Rodriguez aware of when he visits his rich friends?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rodriguez describe the change in the Catholic Church that happens as he grows up?

2. How would Rodriguez change affirmative action? What examples does he offer to support his suggestion?

3. Why does Rodriguez's mother call him "Mr. Secrets"? In spite of his secretive behavior, what does Rodriguez believe she knows?

4. As a teacher, how does Rodriguez interact with these other minority students? Why does he act that way?

5. Now that he is older, how do people respond to Rodriguez's skin color?

6. What conversation does Rodriguez have with a colleague about teaching positions? What decision does Rodriguez make as a result of that conversation?

7. What does Rodriguez think about the Civil Rights Movement?

8. How does Rodriguez describe his mother's interaction with the public world? Give specific examples.

9. As a child, what does Rodriguez learn about dark skin?

10. What does Rodriguez learn from working with the construction workers? Give two specific examples.

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