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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 see the scholarship boy?
(a) As the teacher's puppet.
(b) As someone who is doomed to fail.
(c) As the teacher's pet.
(d) As the future of the country.

2. When Rodriguez gets a summer job during college , what does it teach him about "real work"?
(a) Real work is much easier than academic work.
(b) It would take him more than three months to learn how to do it successfully.
(c) He does not like real work.
(d) He likes real work better than academic work.

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

4. How does Rodriguez describe the 1960s student?
(a) Idealistic and admirable.
(b) Prone to protesting, but with good intentions.
(c) Too politically liberal.
(d) A troublemaker.

5. How does Rodriguez describe the 1970s student?
(a) A troublemaker.
(b) Too politically conservative.
(c) Cynical and sour about life.
(d) Too focused on grades to care about other people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rodriguez's sister's friend challenge his ideas about complexion?

2. What does Rodriguez say about bilingual education and the language of "separateness"?

3. What does Rodriguez wonder about his parents and his education?

4. In Complexion, Chapter 2, what does Rodriguez do to try to change his skin color?

5. In The Achievement of Desire, Prologue, Rodriguez says that now that he is successful, people always ask him a certain question. What is it?

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