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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Rodriguez change his religious practices?
(a) He stops going to mass at all.
(b) He starts praying more regularly.
(c) He stops going to confession and listens to his conscience instead of the priest.
(d) He goes to mass every day.

3. When Rodriguez applies for teaching jobs, what happens?
(a) He gets one or two offers from out-of-state schools.
(b) He does not get any job offers.
(c) He gets lots of good job offers.
(d) He is told the schools will not hire a minority candidate.

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

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

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

7. In Complexion, Chapter 3, what new hobby does Rodriguez take up?
(a) Scuba diving.
(b) Long-distance running.
(c) Skiing.
(d) Skateboarding.

8. Because of his skin color, what did Rodriguez's parents worry about?
(a) That he would have a harder time in school.
(b) That people would discriminate against him.
(c) That he would take a hard labor job.
(d) That he would get involved with a gang.

9. What is the main reason for Rodriguez's success?
(a) His great teachers at Stanford.
(b) The support of his parents.
(c) His hard work and good educational background.
(d) His "minority student" status.

10. What comment from a professor makes Rodriguez rethink his use of the label "minority student"?
(a) That he does not count as a minority.
(b) That his opinion is based on his minority status.
(c) That he is a bad writer because he is a minority.
(d) That he automatically gets an "A" because he is a minority.

11. How does Rodriguez feel about writing a book on his family?
(a) It is very hard for him.
(b) He is worried about what his family will say.
(c) It is very easy for him.
(d) He is excited about it.

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

13. What does Rodriguez have to face in order to write the book?
(a) His family history.
(b) His past.
(c) His attitudes about religion.
(d) His own mistakes.

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

15. How does Rodriguez think about the old religious traditions of his childhood?
(a) He thinks those traditions are only suitable for people like his parents.
(b) He thinks they are old-fashioned and silly.
(c) He misses the ritual.
(d) He is glad the traditions have changed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Complexion, Chapter 3, what does Rodriguez realize about education?

3. Where did Rodriguez teach in the 1960s and 1970s?

4. In Mr. Secrets, Chapter 1, what does Rodriguez's mother beg him not to do?

5. What happens to Rodriguez as a result of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's assassination?

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