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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Complexion, Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does a scholarship boy form his own ideas or opinions?
(a) He bases his ideas on what his teacher tells him.
(b) He bases his ideas on what his classmates tell him.
(c) He learns about other's ideas and opinions, but does not have his own ideas.
(d) He bases his ideas on what he learns in class.

2. How does Rodriguez's father change as the family starts to speak English more?
(a) He gets upset and insists that they speak to him in Spanish.
(b) He takes classes to learn English.
(c) He complains about using English.
(d) He grows quieter because he is uncomfortable with English.

3. How does the family's use of the word "gringo" change as the children learn more English?
(a) They stop saying it because they no longer use Spanish words.
(b) It starts to mean "a non-Hispanic American" as opposed to the "other" or "outsider" that it used to imply.
(c) The children do not like their parents to use that word any more.
(d) They use it to compliment each other on how well they speak English.

4. Rodriguez has acknowledged that his relationship with his family changed as he became more educated. What does he say about how that affected his success?
(a) He used it to motivate him to try harder.
(b) He does not complain about the change because he is so glad to be well-educated.
(c) He used it to explain to people what his life was like before he was educated.
(d) He used it as an excuse to not work very hard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rodriguez told when he asks questions about the church?

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

3. What does Rodriguez say education does to the scholarship boy?

4. In The Achievement of Desire, Prologue, Rodriguez says that now that he is successful, people always ask him a certain question. What is it?

5. What do fellow students think of the scholarship boy?

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