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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. In Mr. Secrets, Chapter 1, what does Rodriguez's mother beg him not to do?
(a) Quit school.
(b) Stop going to church.
(c) Get married.
(d) Write a book about their family.

2. Based on his conversation with his classmate, what does Rodriguez decide?
(a) To take the best job that was offered to him.
(b) To take the worst 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.

3. What example does Rodriguez offer of how affirmative action can have negative consequences?
(a) Students he knew in graduate school who had never written a paper.
(b) Students who flunked out of college.
(c) His own experience as a minority who struggled in college.
(d) Students who were helped by affirmative action, but then did not help their fellow minorities.

4. In the last chapters of the book, what is Rodriguez keeping secret from his family?
(a) That he's writing a book.
(b) That he wants to be a construction worker.
(c) That he no longer goes to church.
(d) That he dropped out of school.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rodriguez think about how the meaning of a person's complexion has changed?

3. When does Rodriguez think that minority students should get help?

4. Because of his skin color, what did Rodriguez's parents worry about?

5. Why does Rodriguez's mother not understand his explanation about psychiatry?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Rodriguez overcome his attitudes about dark skin? Give two specific examples.

4. As a child, what does Rodriguez learn about dark skin?

5. How does Rodriguez handle applying for teaching positions?

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

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

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

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

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

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