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

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

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

4. Why do Rodriguez's teachers visit his house?
(a) To meet his parents.
(b) To ask the family to practice speaking English.
(c) To ask his parents to volunteer at the school.
(d) To talk about his bad behavior.

5. How does Rodriguez's father change as the family starts to speak English more?
(a) He complains about using English.
(b) He takes classes to learn English.
(c) He gets upset and insists that they speak to him in Spanish.
(d) He grows quieter because he is uncomfortable with English.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rodriguez start school?

2. What two versions of his religion does Rodriguez say his parents had to choose between?

3. How does the scholarship boy use education?

4. What does Rodriguez start to believe about intimate conversations?

5. As Rodriguez learns more English, what does he do about his parents' English skills?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Rodriguez's family have the same level of education he does?

2. How does the parents' desire for a good education end up hurting their family?

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

4. How does learning to speak English change Rodriguez's mother? His father?

5. How does Rodriguez describe each language (Spanish and English) differently?

6. How does Rodriguez respond when people ask him how he was successful in school? Is his answer completely honest? Why or why not?

7. What is Rodriguez's initial attitude about reading? What happens to him because of that attitude? What do his parents think about reading?

8. Rodriguez finds a description in THE USES OF LITERACY that reminds him of himself. What is that description?

9. Beyond the simple accomplishment of learning another language, what importance does Rodriguez place on learning English?

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

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