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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Profession, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While he studies at Stanford, what does Rodriguez do to make money?
(a) Tutors other students.
(b) Works a construction job.
(c) Writes for a local newspaper.
(d) Works in the school cafeteria.

3. According to Rodriguez, what is wrong with speaking a private language in public?
(a) Most people will not understand what is being said.
(b) It will eventually stop being a private language.
(c) It prevents people from learning the public language.
(d) It is embarrassing.

4. What does Rodriguez mean by "intimate utterance"?
(a) Intimate words should not be spoken in public.
(b) It is easier to be intimate in Spanish than in English.
(c) Some words are more intimate than others.
(d) Words take their meaning from the relationship between the speakers.

5. How does Rodriguez describe himself as a child?
(a) Spoiled and bratty.
(b) Socially disadvantaged.
(c) Comfortable with English- and Spanish-speaking people.
(d) A wild troublemaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a young child, how does Rodriguez feel about books?

2. In The Achievement of Desire, Chapter 4, what is Rodriguez afraid to admit?

3. Did Rodriguez's parents get the same amount of education that he did?

4. Where does Rodriguez find the description of the "scholarship boy"?

5. As a child, how does Rodriguez feel about speaking English?

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