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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Profession, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example does Rodriguez offer of how affirmative action can have negative consequences?
(a) His own experience as a minority who struggled in college.
(b) Students who were helped by affirmative action, but then did not help their fellow minorities.
(c) Students he knew in graduate school who had never written a paper.
(d) Students who flunked out of college.

2. According to Rodriguez, what did some sympathetic professors do for black students who were struggling?
(a) They helped the students with their homework.
(b) They helped the students cheat on tests.
(c) They tutored them outside of class.
(d) They gave the students passing grades they had not earned.

3. What does Rodriguez's family call him?
(a) Pocho.
(b) Paco.
(c) Poncho.
(d) Pokey.

4. How does Rodriguez feel about his family background?
(a) He wants to know more about it.
(b) He does not think about it too much.
(c) He is proud of it.
(d) He is embarrassed by it.

5. How is the "scholarship boy" described?
(a) A good student but a troubled son.
(b) A good son but a troubled student.
(c) A good son who wants to please his parents.
(d) A good student who is guaranteed to succeed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rodriguez think of his parents' ideas on religion?

2. While he studies at Stanford, what does Rodriguez do to make money?

3. How does Rodriguez describe the 1960s student?

4. What happens at the swimming pool to make Rodriguez aware of his skin color?

5. Rodriguez has acknowledged that his relationship with his family changed as he became more educated. What does he say about how that affected his success?

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