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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 start to believe about intimate conversations?
(a) He will never be able to have them with his family because of the language barrier.
(b) Intimate conversations are hard to have in the "public" language.
(c) He can have them with his family in spite of the language barrier.
(d) He can no longer have an intimate conversation in Spanish.

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

3. What two versions of his religion does Rodriguez say his parents had to choose between?
(a) The gentle, happy version and the intense, frightening version.
(b) The old-fashioned version and the modern version.
(c) The version that talks about sin and the version that talks about love.
(d) The Mexican version and the English-speaking version.

4. How does Rodriguez feel about his religious education?
(a) It changed his life.
(b) It helped him become successful.
(c) It kept him closer to his parents.
(d) It isolated him.

5. What does Rodriguez see as the value of a book?
(a) Its plot or storyline.
(b) Its characters.
(c) Its theme.
(d) Its vocabulary and use of language.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rodriguez believe English should be spoken?

2. How does Rodriguez see the scholarship boy?

3. How well can Rodriguez speak English when he starts school?

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

5. How does the scholarship boy use education?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Rodriguez feel about bilingual education?

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

4. How does Rodriguez feel about his education?

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

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

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

8. Once Rodriguez starts to read, what happens?

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

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

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