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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Rodriguez call the English-speaking people his family interacts with?
(a) Non-Mexicans.
(b) Foreigners.
(c) Gringos.
(d) Otros.
2. How does a scholarship boy form his own ideas or opinions?
(a) He bases his ideas on what his classmates tell him.
(b) He bases his ideas on what his teacher tells 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.
3. What religion does Rodriguez's family practice?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Buddhism.
4. How does Rodriguez feel about learning English?
(a) Frustrated, because he does not learn it very well.
(b) Bored, because he does not really want to learn it.
(c) Guilty, because he feels like he has damaged his family's close relationship.
(d) Proud, because it is a hard language to learn.
5. As a child, how does Rodriguez feel about speaking English?
(a) He is afraid of it.
(b) He thinks it is a waste of time.
(c) He is proud that he learns to speak English well.
(d) He is eager to learn to speak English.
6. How does Rodriguez's education affect his relationship with his parents?
(a) His parents brag about him all the time.
(b) It causes a separation between them.
(c) It makes him feel closer to his parents.
(d) His parents stop talking to him.
7. What does Rodriguez's family call him?
(a) Pokey.
(b) Poncho.
(c) Paco.
(d) Pocho.
8. Does Rodriguez think his religious education had the effect it was supposed to?
(a) No, because the schools were supposed to give him a broader view.
(b) Yes, because he gets a good education.
(c) Yes, because it kept him involved with the religion.
(d) No, because he eventually stops practicing the religion.
9. Does Rodriguez believe that not speaking English well has consequences for his parents?
(a) Yes, because they could not talk to the doctor if they were sick.
(b) Yes, he thinks they got cheated out of money because of it.
(c) No, because they always stayed in places where the other people spoke Spanish, too.
(d) No, he says they did all right in spite of the language problems.
10. When Rodriguez hears about religious practices that are different from his own, what does he think of them?
(a) He likes them better than his own practices.
(b) He is shocked and thinks they are wrong.
(c) He is curious about them.
(d) He sees how similar they are to his own practices.
11. What does Rodriguez realize about language and intimacy?
(a) That intimacy is about the relationship between the people, not about what language they speak.
(b) That Spanish is always a more intimate language that English.
(c) That language is how a person maintains their intimacy with other people.
(d) That he can express himself better in English than in Spanish.
12. When Rodriguez's mother becomes more fluent in English, she convinces her husband to buy _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) A telephone.
(b) A television.
(c) A house.
(d) A new car.
13. What does his mother think about his reading?
(a) She is proud of him for reading so much.
(b) She does not understand it.
(c) She wishes he would read less and go play sports.
(d) She hopes that he can teach her to read better.
14. How does Rodriguez see the scholarship boy?
(a) As the teacher's pet.
(b) As the future of the country.
(c) As the teacher's puppet.
(d) As someone who is doomed to fail.
15. What do teachers think of the scholarship boy?
(a) They are proud of his efforts.
(b) They think he is the teacher's pet.
(c) They think he needs to work harder.
(d) They think he works too hard.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Rodriguez wonder about his parents and his education?
2. What is Rodriguez taught about marrying someone of a different religion?
3. What does Rodriguez mean by "intimate utterance"?
4. In The Achievement of Desire, Chapter 4, what is Rodriguez afraid to admit?
5. Why does Rodriguez say he is writing this book?
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