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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. Who discourages Rodriguez from taking advanced classes?

2. What is a chonga?

3. Why does Rodriguez bring her mother to talk with her counselor in high school?

4. Why does Rodriguez feel out of place during grad school?

5. How does Rodriguez embrace her working-class identity?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who calls Rodriguez after she applies to grad school?

2. Where does Rodriguez often go to seek solace?

3. What poetry book does Rodriguez buy in high school?

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

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

6. What does Rodriguez believe about meritocracy?

7. Where does Rodriguez's family move to when she is a child?

8. Why does Rodriguez start dressing differently than normal while in grad school?

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

10. Where does Rodriguez live during grad school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring how Rodriguez's relationship with her husband. In what ways is it complicated, and in what ways has she worked to improve the power dynamic and their understanding of each other, as a white man and a Latinx woman?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring Rodriguez's relationship to the church and Christianity. How has this relationship changed throughout her life?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring Rodriguez's experience in graduate school. In what ways was the experience both traumatizing and transformative for her?

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