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

2. How does the scholarship boy use education?
(a) To make money.
(b) To change himself.
(c) To get a good job.
(d) To make friends.

3. As he finishes his education, does Rodriguez think his parents still love him? How do you know?
(a) No, because they do not talk to him.
(b) Yes, because there are intimate gestures even though they do not talk much.
(c) Yes, because they throw him a graduation party.
(d) Yes, because they try to talk to him.

4. 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.

5. When Rodriguez hears about religious practices that are different from his own, what does he think of them?
(a) He is curious about them.
(b) He likes them better than his own practices.
(c) He sees how similar they are to his own practices.
(d) He is shocked and thinks they are wrong.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rodriguez realize about language and intimacy?

3. In The Achievement of Desire, Prologue, Rodriguez says that now that he is successful, people always ask him a certain question. What is it?

4. What does Rodriguez say would be the disadvantage of bilingual education?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Rodriguez is trained in Catholic ideas and rituals at a young age. What does this do to his understanding of other religious beliefs and practices?

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

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

4. How does Rodriguez feel about his education?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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