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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Credo, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does a newspaper affect Rodriguez's reading habits?
(a) An article explains why reading books can help you do well on tests, so he reads even more books.
(b) An article describes 100 important books and he decides to read all of them.
(c) He decides to read the newspaper instead of books.
(d) He decides to read all the book on the bestseller list.

2. What does Rodriguez say education does to the scholarship boy?
(a) It teaches him to stand up for himself.
(b) It teaches him to fight for justice.
(c) It teaches him to look down on people who are not educated.
(d) It teaches him to be less unique and more like other people.

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

4. How does Rodriguez describe his life as a child?
(a) Frightening.
(b) Fun.
(c) Boring.
(d) Sheltered.

5. What was Rodriguez like as a student?
(a) A slow learner who worked very hard.
(b) The kind of student to whom everything came easily.
(c) A bookworm who admired his teachers.
(d) A troublemaker who was bored in class.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rodriguez, what is wrong with speaking a private language in public?

2. What does Rodriguez realize about language and intimacy?

3. How does a scholarship boy form his own ideas or opinions?

4. How does Rodriguez feel about his family background?

5. What does Rodriguez call the English-speaking people his family interacts with?

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