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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. How old was Francisco's mother Joaquina when she married Francisco's father?

2. What position at the college did Rafael Hernandez inhabit when Jimenez first befriended him?

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

4. In what grade did Francisco realize that he aspired to become a teacher?

5. Which of Francisco's siblings almost died during the time the family lived in Tent City?

Short Essay Questions

1. What alarming object tumbled out of the Jimenez patriarch's pocket just before the arrival of the police?

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

3. What milestone does Jimenez depict in the relationship between his mother and father within the chapter entitled "At a Loss"?

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

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

6. Who was Emily and how did Jimenez make her acquaintance?

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

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

9. What objects in Emily's family kitchen are used by Jimenez to symbolize his own feelings of belonging and shared understanding?

10. How did Jimenez meet the person referred to in the chapter title "Soul Mate"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss Jimenez's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different locations in a particular way within the text of Reaching Out.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Jimenez's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of Reaching Out.

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