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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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."

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

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

5. When does Rodriguez begin to question his religion?
(a) After he graduates from school.
(b) When he is in college.
(c) When he starts to read more books.
(d) When they tell him not to ask questions about religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rodriguez told when he asks questions about the church?

2. What does Rodriguez say would be the benefit of bilingual education?

3. As Rodriguez moves into college and graduate school, how does his relationship with his parents change?

4. What does Rodriguez's teacher tell him about reading and complicated ideas?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rodriguez view his parents' use of English?

2. Is Rodriguez prepared for his first day of school? Why or why not?

3. Why does Rodriguez say he spent so many years in the classroom?

4. What is special or different about the school Rodriguez attends? How does that affect him later in life?

5. What conflicting messages does Rodriguez's father give him about getting an education?

6. How do Catholic rituals become a part of Rodriguez's life? Which rituals does he describe?

7. What do other people think of the "scholarship boy"?

8. What does Rodriguez describe as the differences between Mexican Catholicism and English Catholicism? Identify two characteristics of each.

9. How does Rodriguez feel as his education comes to an end?

10. What does Rodriguez suggest education does to the scholarship boy? Why does he say that?

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