Reading Comprehension Quiz (Marjorie Agosín, “Always Living in Spanish”)

Reading Comprehension Quiz

Marjorie Agosín, “Always Living in Spanish”

Read “Always Living in Spanish” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.

Question Agosín named her essay “Always Living in Spanish” and yet she is widely translated in English. How does the name of the essay contribute to her overall message in the essay?

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Question Based on this essay, how does Agosín feel about translations?

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Question How might one describe Agosín’s first years in the United States?

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Question Agosín wrote that “I, too, became one who had to live and speak in translation.” Who is she connecting herself to with this line?

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Question What type of essay is this?

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Question Why does Agosín end her essay with a one-sentence paragraph?

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Question What does Agosín mean by the idea that exiles “share the unresolvable torment of not being able to live in the language of their childhood”?

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Question What does Agosín believe about language and identity?

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