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

2. What does Rodriguez's professor ask him about applying for teaching jobs?
(a) If he wants to get a job this year.
(b) If he is sure he wants to teach college.
(c) If Rodriguez thinks the jobs will find him because he is a minority candidate.
(d) If he is willing to teach at a far away school.

3. Why does Rodriguez use the label "minority student"?
(a) To prove that Hispanics can succeed in school.
(b) To get scholarships.
(c) To get sympathy from professors.
(d) To announce that he is proud of his ethnicity.

4. How does Rodriguez describe the 1960s student?
(a) A troublemaker.
(b) Too politically liberal.
(c) Prone to protesting, but with good intentions.
(d) Idealistic and admirable.

5. According to Rodriguez, what did some sympathetic professors do for black students who were struggling?
(a) They gave the students passing grades they had not earned.
(b) They helped the students with their homework.
(c) They tutored them outside of class.
(d) They helped the students cheat on tests.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Rodriguez feel comfortable? Why?

3. What does Rodriguez think about his ability to succeed with women?

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

5. What does Rodriguez hope writing the book will do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rodriguez decide to do about a job?

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

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

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

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 child, what does Rodriguez learn about dark skin?

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

9. How does Rodriguez describe his mother's interaction with the public world? Give specific examples.

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

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