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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. What does his mother think about his reading?
(a) She is proud of him for reading so much.
(b) She hopes that he can teach her to read better.
(c) She wishes he would read less and go play sports.
(d) She does not understand it.

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

3. 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 troublemaker who was bored in class.
(d) A bookworm who admired his teachers.

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

5. How does Rodriguez see the scholarship boy?
(a) As the teacher's puppet.
(b) As the teacher's pet.
(c) As the future of the country.
(d) As someone who is doomed to fail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rodriguez say education does to the scholarship boy?

2. Where does Rodriguez believe English should be spoken?

3. How does Rodriguez describe the sound of English?

4. What does Rodriguez do in Aria, Chapter 2, that gives him the confidence to speak up in class?

5. As Rodriguez and his siblings learn more English, what happens to their family?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Rodriguez describe himself as a student?

5. What does Rodriguez identify as the symbol of how these two versions of Catholicism intersect in his life?

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

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

8. Why does the Rodriguez family tease Richard? What do they call him?

9. How does Rodriguez feel about his education?

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

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