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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mr. Secrets, Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rodriguez change his religious practices?
(a) He starts praying more regularly.
(b) He goes to mass every day.
(c) He stops going to mass at all.
(d) He stops going to confession and listens to his conscience instead of the priest.

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

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

4. What does Rodriguez wonder about his parents and his education?
(a) If they think he is trying hard enough in class.
(b) If they think he should be studying a different subject.
(c) If they can help him with his homework.
(d) If they will understand the knowledge he gains.

5. Why do the new minority students on campus make Rodriguez uneasy?
(a) They try to speak to him in Spanish.
(b) They celebrate the cultural heritage that he has rejected.
(c) They act like revolutionaries and promote violence.
(d) They dress funny.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rodriguez say that the white students react to affirmative action?

2. What does Rodriguez realize about language and intimacy?

3. How does Rodriguez describe himself now?

4. When Rodriguez applies for teaching jobs, what happens?

5. In the last chapters of the book, what is Rodriguez keeping secret from his family?

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