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

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

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

4. According to Rodriguez's family, what is wrong with Richard?
(a) He needs to be more responsible.
(b) He needs to work at hard labor.
(c) He needs to talk more when he is at home.
(d) He is more like a woman because he talks a lot and has soft hands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rodriguez's complexion like?

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

3. According to Rodriguez's family, how are men supposed to be?

4. How do Rodriguez's parents see themselves in American society?

5. When Rodriguez gets a summer job during college , what does it teach him about "real work"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. Rodriguez looks at the students of the 1960s and 1970s from a teacher's perspective. What does he see as the difference between them?

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