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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 do the Hispanic college students ask Rodriguez to do?
(a) To give a speech to their student group.
(b) To teach a course in minority literature.
(c) To write them recommendations for graduate school.
(d) To lead a protest.

2. What is Rodriguez's complexion like?
(a) He has bad acne.
(b) He is light-skinned.
(c) He is dark-skinned.
(d) He looks like a white boy.

3. What happens to Rodriguez as a result of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's assassination?
(a) He becomes involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
(b) He is scared to pursue more education.
(c) He loses his scholarship to a black student.
(d) He gets more scholarships and opportunities.

4. What changes Rodriguez's ideas about his complexion?
(a) He talks about it with other minority students.
(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 one of his professors.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. While he studies at Stanford, what does Rodriguez do to make money?

2. Based on his conversation with his classmate, what does Rodriguez decide?

3. When he was a child, what did his parents say he looked like?

4. Does Rodriguez's mother blame him for what happened to their family?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Rodriguez explain psychiatry to his mother? Does she understand? Why or why not? How does that discussion connect to his book and what he is willing to tell her about the book?

4. How would Rodriguez change affirmative action? What examples does he offer to support his suggestion?

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

6. How does Rodriguez handle applying for teaching positions?

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

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

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

10. What conversation does Rodriguez have with a colleague about teaching positions? What decision does Rodriguez make as a result of that conversation?

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