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

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

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

4. Now that he is a teacher, what does Rodriguez blame white students for?
(a) They think they are smarter than the professors.
(b) They do not make an effort to help poor white students get an education.
(c) They are arrogant and selfish about their grades.
(d) They are rude to the minority students.

5. Where did Rodriguez teach in the 1960s and 1970s?
(a) UC Berkeley.
(b) Harvard.
(c) UCLA.
(d) Stanford.

Short Answer Questions

1. As he gets older, what do people tell Rodriguez about his complexion?

2. Who teaches Rodriguez that stereotypes are not accurate?

3. What new academic field do these minority college students ask for?

4. What does Rodriguez's editor say about his idea for a book?

5. What does Rodriguez learn about complexion from his family?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rodriguez describe the change in the Catholic Church that happens as he grows up?

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

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

4. How does Rodriguez feel about writing? How does he feel about writing about his family? How has he handled it in the past? How is he handling it now?

5. What does Rodriguez learn from working with the construction workers? Give two specific examples.

6. How do people respond to Rodriguez's skin color when he is younger?

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

8. How does Rodriguez use the label "minority student"? How does he feel about it? Give specific reasons why he feels that way.

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

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

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