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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rodriguez's family call him?
(a) Poncho.
(b) Pokey.
(c) Pocho.
(d) Paco.

3. How does the family's communication change as the children learn more English?
(a) Their mother talks to them a lot, but their father never speaks to them.
(b) They enjoy speaking Spanish together more.
(c) They talk less because it is hard for the parents to understand their children when they speak English.
(d) Their mother and father speak to them, but they no longer talk to their grandmother.

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

5. What does Rodriguez's family seem to think about Spanish and English?
(a) Spanish and English are equally good languages.
(b) Richard needs to remember his Spanish, even if that hurts his education.
(c) Richard should speak only Spanish.
(d) Richard should learn to speak only in English to be more successful.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rodriguez describe the sound of English?

2. What does Rodriguez say about how the people around him now say his name?

3. How does Rodriguez feel about his education?

4. How does Rodriguez's grandmother affect his ideas on language?

5. How does Rodriguez explain his success to people?

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