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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. Who graduates at the top of Rodriguez's class in college?
(a) Rodriguez's boyfriend.
(b) Michael.
(c) Rodriguez.
(d) Rodriguez's friend.

2. When does Rodriguez learn to value her background and take pride in it?
(a) In high school.
(b) In grad school.
(c) Never.
(d) In college.

3. What has Rodriguez's mother internalized about Brownness?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It is inherently good.
(c) It is a sign of royalty.
(d) It is inherently bad.

4. What genre is this text?
(a) Biography.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Autoethnography.
(d) Essays.

5. What does Rodriguez realize is the source of her panic when she reaches adulthood?
(a) Gender.
(b) Race.
(c) Class.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rodriguez learn in grad school to allow her to heal from her childhood?

2. What does Rodriguez become when she speaks Spanish?

3. What does Rodriguez begin to experience while in grad school?

4. Where does Rodriguez first learn about voluntourism?

5. How does Rodriguez try to change her physical image in middle school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does colorism place value on?

2. Who once mocks Rodriguez during class while she is in grad school?

3. Who tries to stop Rodriguez from taking AP classes in high school?

4. What is Rodriguez's mother always nagging her about?

5. What is Rodriguez's relationship to the Spanish language?

6. What does Rodriguez buy in high school to try to gain proximity to whiteness?

7. What does Rodriguez realize when she gets to grad school?

8. Who is the first in Rodriguez's family to go to college?

9. What is Rodriguez's experience with code-switching?

10. Why does Rodriguez stay after school every day when she first moves to the U.S.?

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