Yes, I think that she does, because she sets up the opportunity for them to be around each other,

and we can
assume she understands enough basic English for her to know he wasn't speaking French.

She tells Victor he speaks French well and asks if he can help her study.

Teresa wants to hang out with Victor more so she asks if he can help her study.

Because he needed to learn French so that he could study with his crush Teresa.

He rushed to the library in paragraph 64 and checked out 3 French textbooks.

He was getting the textbooks so he would understand French better and impress Teresa.

I think that he is a good teacher because he had the opportunity to bust Victor in front of
his crush but he sympathizes with him

In paragraph 56, "He remembered his college years when he dated a girlfriend in borrowed cars."

He understood how it felt trying to impress a crush so he didn't choose to rat out Victor.
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Victor wants to take French because he knows his crush is taking French too.

In paragraph two, "Besides, Teresa, a girl he had liked since they were in catcechism at ST. Theresa's
was taking French, too."
Victor hopes that if they have French class together that he may have the opportunity to have
Teresa notice him or like him back.

Victor and Michael did not have an easy summer in their opinions.

In paragraph six, "They talked about recent movies, baseball, their parents, and the horrors of picking
grapes in order to buy their fall clothes."

Because they had to pick grapes to be able to afford new clothes for the new school year.

They thought it worked because girls had looked at each of them. It wasn't working they just
looked weird.
Belinda Reyes, a girl in their school looked at Michael and a girl in the halls saw Victor.

They thought it worked because Belinda Reyes looked at Michael while he was doing it, and
while heading to class Victor tried and a girl saw him.