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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Francisco's response when his college roommate Smokey asked him where he was born?

2. To what California city did Francisco travel in order to attend college at the start of the memoir?

3. Which of the following WAS allowed to be worn during meals at Francisco's college?

4. What emotion did Francisco experience when he woke up and remembered the events that had taken place the night of the basketball game?

5. For how many months did Francisco and Roberto live together on their own in the United States?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which member of the Jimenez family is singled out as the person he will miss the most and why?

2. What unexpected benefit comes from Jimenez's donning of a green uniform for ROTC?

3. What good news did Jimenez receive shortly after the drunken weekend that caused him to feel deep shame?

4. Describe an instance when Jimenez uses a simile in order to underscore the nature of a particular emotion.

5. For what reason does Jimenez allude to John Steinbeck within the opening chapters of Reaching Out?

6. Discuss a time in the memoir when Jimenez uses the motif of dreams to highlight the emotional messages within a particular scene.

7. What major event is taking place at the time of the memoir's opening?

8. Discuss a time in the memoir when Jimenez makes a connection between racism and some other form of prejudice.

9. What caused Jimenez to join the Reserve Officers Training Corps during college?

10. What part of Jimenez's membership in the ROTC did he loathe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way does Jimenez go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance the text’s arguments?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Jimenez’s use of Aristotle's appeals within the text of the memoir Reaching Out. How does Jimenez use each of the three appeals to persuade the reader of points central to the overall messages of the work?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Jimenez’s use of the motif of sound within the nonfiction work Reaching Out.

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