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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 in Rodriguez's family was a daddy's girl?

2. Who yells at Rodriguez on the way to the airport?

3. Why does Rodriguez visit Fort Myers, Florida?

4. What does Rodriguez's mother wish her daughter were doing in life?

5. How does Rodriguez feel after her divorce?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the spring of 2014?

2. How is Rodriguez punished throughout her childhood?

3. What has Rodriguez always aspired to be?

4. Who is Dr. Cynthia Enloe?

5. How does intersectionality change Rodriguez's approach to romantic relationships?

6. Who does Rodriguez have an aversion to for most of her life?

7. Who wrongly assumes Rodriguez is Mexican?

8. Why does Rodriguez get hit after going to a birthday party in fourth grade?

9. What country does Rodriguez visit in 2018?

10. What panel does Rodriguez organize while in grad school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring the sexism Rodriguez endured at the hands of her family and community growing up. In what ways did she begin to challenge the misogyny projected onto her once she was an adult?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write an essay exploring Rodriguez's experience of unlearning the racist, sexist, xenophobic ideologies she internalized while growing up. What experiences or tools helped her to unlearn these harmful things?

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