From Barrio Boy

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English
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7th Grade
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Easy
Margaret Anderson
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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In the excerpt from "Barrio Boy," how does Ernesto learn English?
He learns once he can say "butterfly."
He learns because Miss Hopley insists that all students speak English in class.
He learns because Miss Ryan gives him private lessons in a closet hall off the classroom.
He learns on the playground, from the other Mexican children in school.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Why does Ernesto Galarza compare Lincoln School and his school in Mazatlan?
He wishes to show that he prefers the school he had attended in Mexico.
He wishes to show he is frightened by the "contraption" that shuts the door.
He wishes to show that in Mexico the principal of a school is always a man.
He wishes to show that he feels insecure at a new school in a new country.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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What information mainly does the following passage convey (paragraph 12)?
Miss Ryan took me to a seat at the front of the room, into which I shrank—the better to survey her. She was, to skinny, somewhat runty me, of a withering height when she patrolled the class. And when I least expected it, there she was, crouching by my desk, her blond radiant face level with mine, her voice patiently maneuvering me over the awful idiocies of the English language.
The narrator is anxious in Miss Ryan’s presence.
Miss Ryan thinks the narrator is an exceptional student.
Miss Ryan is more than six feet tall.
The narrator dislikes Miss Ryan trying to explain the “idiocies” of English.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
One of the main reasons that students from all cultures feel safe being themselves at the school is that
the principal is a strong, tall woman, and the teachers are strict.
children may be disciplined only by their parents away from school.
the boys don't really fight; they just wrestle and sit on top of the loser
they learn that they can be Americans without giving up their traditions.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
How does Miss Ryan react when Ernesto tries to compare difficult English pronunciations with Spanish pronunciations?
She punishes Ernesto for speaking Spanish in class.
She listens and tries to pronounce the words as Ernesto does.
She does not let Ernesto change the subject from English.
She asks the class for other pronunciations of the words.
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