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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. How old was Francisco's mother Joaquina when she married Francisco's father?
(a) 18.
(b) 23.
(c) 16.
(d) 25.

2. Francisco reports that he and Roberto had been prohibited from taking what action at school during their first year of residence in the United States?
(a) Writing Spanish.
(b) Speaking Spanglish.
(c) Speaking Spanish.
(d) Reading Spanish.

3. Ruben Dario was an artist from Nicaragua who created what type of art?
(a) Sculpture.
(b) Dance choreography.
(c) Literature.
(d) Oil painting.

4. On what holiday did members of the Jimenez family retrieve their patriarch from jail?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) Palm Sunday.
(d) Easter.

5. The first time Francisco had dinner at Emily's house, he felt soothed by the sight of a "molcajete" (130). What is the English translation of this Spanish word?
(a) A book.
(b) A stone mortar.
(c) A jack-in-the-box.
(d) A mask.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many part-time jobs in total did Francisco hold at the same time during sophomore year?

2. In what level of school were the students whom Francisco tutored in the Spanish language and culture in order to prepare them for community service work?

3. For whom did Francisco continue to work throughout his junior year at college?

4. The person who took care of Papa in Mexico was related to her charge in what way?

5. Laura told Francisco in the chapter entitled "A Secret Revealed" that her mother had died when she was how old?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice did Jimenez's father always give him about friendship?

2. In which two ways was Laura different than every other student in the Latin American Literature class?

3. What reasons did Rafael Hernandez give Jimenez for his decision to return to Mexico?

4. How did Father O'Neill define a leader within his conversation with Jimenez across the university's campus?

5. What news did Jimenez receive about his father's situation in Mexico during the second half of Jimenez's sophomore year of college?

6. What motivation drove Jimenez to try to teach himself how to pick cotton at the age of six?

7. What major obstacle did Jimenez face upon returning to the University of Santa Clara to begin his sophomore year and how did he overcome it?

8. For what specific reason did Jimenez feel grateful to have known Rafael Hernandez?

9. Which classes constituted Jimenez's favorites during the first semester of his sophomore year?

10. What was Jimenez's single piece of knowledge about Sodality life before his conversation with Father O'Neill?

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