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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rodriguez feel about his education?
(a) He has conflicting feelings.
(b) He is angry that they did not have programs for bilingual children when he went to school.
(c) It was the worst thing that ever happened to him.
(d) It was the best thing that ever happened to him.

2. What changes Rodriguez's ideas about his complexion?
(a) He talks about it with one of his professors.
(b) He works construction and gets comfortable about revealing his skin.
(c) He talks about it with other minority students.
(d) He writes a news story about the "Black is Beautiful" movement.

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

4. Why does Rodriguez say he is writing this book?
(a) To encourage other people to get a good education.
(b) To study how he became the person he is today.
(c) To explain how hard school is for children who do not speak English.
(d) To complain about the bad schools he attended.

5. What does Rodriguez start to believe about intimate conversations?
(a) He will never be able to have them with his family because of the language barrier.
(b) Intimate conversations are hard to have in the "public" language.
(c) He can no longer have an intimate conversation in Spanish.
(d) He can have them with his family in spite of the language barrier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the new minority students on campus make Rodriguez uneasy?

2. How do Rodriguez's parents respond when he wants to go to Stanford?

3. In Aria, Chapter 3, why does Rodriguez's family tease him?

4. How does Rodriguez change his religious practices?

5. What is Rodriguez told about reading the Bible?

(see the answer key)

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