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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rodriguez's mother feel about her daughter's career?
(a) She is worried.
(b) She does not approve.
(c) She approves.
(d) She is proud.

2. Who does Rodriguez take a photo with while on a school trip?
(a) No one.
(b) Her POC classmates.
(c) Brown children.
(d) Her white classmates.

3. What did Rodriguez's mother want to be before motherhood?
(a) A detective or reporter.
(b) An actress.
(c) A chef.
(d) A teacher.

4. What is the function of white fragility?
(a) To support POC.
(b) To shift the blame of racism to BIPOC.
(c) To create bonds between white people and non-white people.
(d) To bolster white supremacy.

5. Who helps Rodriguez divest from the male gaze?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Her kids.
(d) No one.

6. Why does Rodriguez have a ritual at DJ's house?
(a) DJ lives close to school.
(b) DJ has a pool.
(c) DJ owns a house.
(d) DJ has a fire fit.

7. Who is José Antonio Elena Rodriguez?
(a) A boy killed at the Mexican border.
(b) An actor.
(c) A student.
(d) A chef.

8. Who would Rodriguez's father often talk negatively about?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

9. When does Rodriguez get divorced?
(a) 1998.
(b) 2020.
(c) 2014.
(d) She does not get divorced.

10. At what age does Rodriguez first bring home a boyfriend?
(a) 19.
(b) 45.
(c) 14.
(d) 30.

11. What does Rodriguez encourage POC to do in the face of white supremacy?
(a) Infiltrate white spaces.
(b) Yell at white people.
(c) Stick together.
(d) Make white friends.

12. How old is Rodriguez the first time she sees a woman preach at church?
(a) 4.
(b) In her 20s.
(c) In her thirties.
(d) 14.

13. Who is Andrés?
(a) A cousin.
(b) A brother-in-law.
(c) A family friend.
(d) A chef.

14. What does Rodriguez spend most of her life wanting to be?
(a) An intellectual.
(b) A writer.
(c) A chef.
(d) Nothing.

15. What is the ethnic background of the narrator's husband?
(a) He is Black.
(b) He is Korean.
(c) He is Asian.
(d) He is white.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the last time Rodriguez lets her father mistreat her?

2. Why does intersectionality assert?

3. Who is asked to cross the border to Mexico on foot?

4. Who in society is most pressured to shave their bodies?

5. How do men react to seeing a woman preach at Rodriguez's church?

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