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

2. Who once mocks Rodriguez for mispronouncing a word during class?

3. What is Rodriguez's main concern in middle school?

4. When does Rodriguez first become aware of class?

5. What was not a priority for Rodriguez's family growing up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does Rodriguez write for?

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

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

7. What does Rodriguez claim she wears whenever she leaves her house?

8. What happened to Rodriguez's cousin in 2018?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring grief in the book. In what ways does Rodriguez contend with grief? What has she grieved throughout her life?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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