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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rodriguez hope writing the book will do?
(a) Allow him to move forward and face his future.
(b) Share his ideas on education.
(c) Explain his history.
(d) Please his parents.

2. How does Rodriguez's sister's friend challenge his ideas about complexion?
(a) She is black, but not poor.
(b) She is white, but not rich.
(c) She is light-skinned but spends more time outdoors than he does.
(d) She is dark-skinned but spends more time indoors than he does.

3. When he was a child, what did his parents say he looked like?
(a) A sick child.
(b) A poor Mexican man who works in the sun.
(c) A ghost.
(d) A wealthy boy who does not work.

4. How does Rodriguez say that the white students react to affirmative action?
(a) They complain about it.
(b) They protest against it.
(c) They blame him for it.
(d) They are sympathetic to it.

5. What new academic field do these minority college students ask for?
(a) Anthropology.
(b) Third world studies.
(c) Ethnography.
(d) Ethnic studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rodriguez, who does affirmative action help?

2. Why does Rodriguez use the label "minority student"?

3. What term does Rodriguez's mother ask him to explain?

4. While he writes his book, how does Rodriguez support himself?

5. When a student complains that he is being kept out of law school, what does Rodriguez do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Rodriguez's parents' ideas about masculine and feminine characteristics? How does that affect Rodriguez?

2. Now that he is older, how do people respond to Rodriguez's skin color?

3. What does Rodriguez think about the current system of affirmative action? Give two examples he uses to support his argument.

4. What kind of social life does Rodriguez have? Does he have lots of friends and girlfriends?

5. What does Rodriguez's mother tell him about writing about their family? What does his editor tell him?

6. As more minority students attend college, what does Rodriguez notice about their relationship to their culture? Give specific examples.

7. What does Rodriguez think about the Civil Rights Movement?

8. How do Rodriguez's ideas about dark skin change as he grows up? Give specific examples.

9. How do Rodriguez's ideas about religion change as he grows up? How does his practice of religion change?

10. As a teacher, how does Rodriguez interact with these other minority students? Why does he act that way?

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