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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rodriguez think of his parents' ideas on religion?
(a) They are deep and profound.
(b) They are based on good Church teachings.
(c) They just do what the priest tells them to do.
(d) They are too simple.

2. Now that Rodriguez is an adult and done with school, what does his mother ask him to do?
(a) To leave school and help his father earn some money.
(b) To write down their family's history.
(c) To stop talking about how his education pushed him away from the family.
(d) To find a nice girl and get married.

3. What example does Rodriguez offer of a program that can help minority students?
(a) Students who took a remedial reading course.
(b) His own experience: a strong educational background.
(c) Students he knew in graduate school who went for extra tutoring.
(d) Students who went to college for five years instead of four.

4. Who teaches Rodriguez that stereotypes are not accurate?
(a) The other students.
(b) His professors at Stanford.
(c) The well-educated construction workers.
(d) His boss at his job.

5. Where does Rodriguez go for his fellowship?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Rome.
(d) Mexico City.

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

7. When he is a child, what do people say about Rodriguez's complexion?
(a) They tell him he is handsome.
(b) They tease him.
(c) They tell him to see a doctor to get help.
(d) They joke with him about how light his skin is.

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

9. At what stage in their academic career does Rodriguez believe students need help?
(a) When they start college.
(b) When they start school.
(c) During the last two years of high school.
(d) When they start high school.

10. Based on his conversation with his classmate, what does Rodriguez decide?
(a) To take the worst job that was offered to him.
(b) To take the best job that was offered to him.
(c) Not to take any of the teaching jobs.
(d) To only take a job if he knows he did not get it through affirmative action.

11. What do the students say about Rodriguez?
(a) He is too politically conservative.
(b) He is a know-it-all.
(c) He is Mexican, but acts white.
(d) He seems smart, but acts dumb.

12. How does Rodriguez's sister feel about her children's complexions?
(a) She wants them to take care of their skin so they are more attractive.
(b) She is disappointed that they do not look more like her.
(c) She is relieved when they are light-skinned.
(d) She is relieved when they are dark-skinned.

13. What term does Rodriguez's mother ask him to explain?
(a) Bilingual education.
(b) LSD.
(c) Psychiatry.
(d) Affirmative action.

14. What does Rodriguez learn about complexion from his family?
(a) Dark skin is ugly.
(b) Be proud of your complexion, no matter what.
(c) Light skin is ugly.
(d) Complexion does not matter.

15. When a student complains that he is being kept out of law school, what does Rodriguez do?
(a) Tell him to stop whining.
(b) Support his case.
(c) Argue against his case.
(d) Stay out of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Based on her behavior, who does Rodriguez's mother consider part of the "gringos"?

2. Is Rodriguez's classmate as good a student as Rodriguez is?

3. What is the Third World Student Movement?

4. What does Rodriguez have to face in order to write the book?

5. How does Rodriguez think about the old religious traditions of his childhood?

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