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

2. How does Rodriguez see the scholarship boy?
(a) As the teacher's puppet.
(b) As the teacher's pet.
(c) As the future of the country.
(d) As someone who is doomed to fail.

3. 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 explain to people what his life was like before he was educated.
(b) He used it to motivate him to try harder.
(c) He used it as an excuse to not work very hard.
(d) He does not complain about the change because he is so glad to be well-educated.

4. What is Rodriguez told when he asks questions about the church?
(a) Only ask questions of the priests and nuns.
(b) God will answer all your questions.
(c) Asking questions is a good thing to do.
(d) Do not ask questions; just memorize the right answers.

5. Why is the picture of Christ with a punctured heart important?
(a) It frightens Richard and gives him nightmares.
(b) It is the first gift his family gets from a priest.
(c) It symbolizes everything his family believes about God.
(d) It symbolizes the intersection of church, school, and home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religious figure was very important in his parents' old church, but becomes less important in the new church?

2. Why do Rodriguez's teachers visit his house?

3. How does the family's communication change as the children learn more English?

4. When he was a child, what did his parents say he looked like?

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

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