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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rodriguez taught about marrying someone of a different religion?
(a) It is difficult to make it work.
(b) It is a good idea.
(c) It is a sin.
(d) It is all right if both families approve of it.

2. How well can Rodriguez speak English when he starts school?
(a) He does not speak English at all.
(b) He speaks English pretty well.
(c) He is fluent in English and Spanish.
(d) His English is very limited.

3. How does the family's use of the word "gringo" change as the children learn more English?
(a) They use it to compliment each other on how well they speak English.
(b) It starts to mean "a non-Hispanic American" as opposed to the "other" or "outsider" that it used to imply.
(c) They stop saying it because they no longer use Spanish words.
(d) The children do not like their parents to use that word any more.

4. According to Rodriguez, what is wrong with speaking a private language in public?
(a) It is embarrassing.
(b) It will eventually stop being a private language.
(c) Most people will not understand what is being said.
(d) It prevents people from learning the public language.

5. How does Rodriguez get involved in his church?
(a) He reads the Bible aloud in church.
(b) He goes to mass every week.
(c) He becomes an altar boy.
(d) He studies to become a priest.

6. As a child, how does Rodriguez feel about speaking English?
(a) He is afraid of it.
(b) He is proud that he learns to speak English well.
(c) He is eager to learn to speak English.
(d) He thinks it is a waste of time.

7. What is Rodriguez's initial response to bilingual education?
(a) He disagrees with it.
(b) He thinks it is too hard on the teacher.
(c) He thinks it makes students work harder.
(d) He thinks it would have helped him a lot.

8. Where does Rodriguez believe Spanish should be spoken?
(a) Everywhere.
(b) In public.
(c) In private, with family or close friends.
(d) In the classroom.

9. What do fellow students think of the scholarship boy?
(a) They think he works too hard.
(b) They think he needs to work harder.
(c) They think he is the teacher's pet.
(d) They are proud of his efforts.

10. In The Achievement of Desire, Chapter 4, how does Rodriguez describe his relationship with his parents?
(a) They are "culturally separated."
(b) They are "strangers and relatives."
(c) They are "the old way and the new way."
(d) They are "warm but uncomfortable."

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

12. What does Rodriguez say about how the people around him now say his name?
(a) They mispronounce it.
(b) They say it as if they are impressed to know him.
(c) They pronounce it differently than his Spanish-speaking family.
(d) They say his name just like everyone else's name.

13. Rodriguez describes events that happened how many years ago?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 20 years.

14. Where does Rodriguez start school?
(a) In St. Paul, Minnesota.
(b) In Miami, Florida.
(c) In Sacramento, California.
(d) In New York City.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Did Rodriguez's parents get the same amount of education that he did?

2. What does Rodriguez learn about sin?

3. How does Rodriguez feel about his family background?

4. When Rodriguez hears about religious practices that are different from his own, what does he think of them?

5. How does Rodriguez feel about his parents' English skills?

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