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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 Rodriguez learn about sin?
(a) Sins are good, and he should try to have more of them.
(b) Sins are bad, and he should confess them to the priest.
(c) Sins are not a big deal, and he should not worry about them.
(d) Sins are things that non-religious people do.

2. What does Rodriguez's teacher tell him about reading and complicated ideas?
(a) He needs to read 5,000 books to have a complicated idea.
(b) People who do not read cannot have complicated ideas.
(c) Reading will teach him complicated ideas.
(d) He needs to read 2,000 books to have a complicated idea.

3. What does Rodriguez realize about language and intimacy?
(a) That language is how a person maintains their intimacy with other people.
(b) That Spanish is always a more intimate language that English.
(c) That he can express himself better in English than in Spanish.
(d) That intimacy is about the relationship between the people, not about what language they speak.

4. What does Rodriguez call the English-speaking people his family interacts with?
(a) Foreigners.
(b) Gringos.
(c) Non-Mexicans.
(d) Otros.

5. How does Rodriguez feel about learning English?
(a) Frustrated, because he does not learn it very well.
(b) Bored, because he does not really want to learn it.
(c) Proud, because it is a hard language to learn.
(d) Guilty, because he feels like he has damaged his family's close relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Rodriguez believe that not speaking English well has consequences for his parents?

2. How does Rodriguez feel about his education?

3. How does a scholarship boy form his own ideas or opinions?

4. 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?

5. How do Rodriguez's parents respond when he wants to go to Stanford?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rodriguez feel about his education?

2. Why does Rodriguez talk about how the rich people pronounce his name?

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

4. What does Rodriguez discover about language and intimacy? What family member helps him to figure that out?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Rodriguez identify as the pros and cons of bilingual education?

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