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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. Who was the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that told Congress, "If you are in this country illegally, you should be uncomfortable, you should look over your shoulder, and you need to be worried" (2)?

2. When did the author's maternal grandparents move to the U.S.?

3. What was the student newspaper at Mountain View High School when the author was attending?

4. Where is Maria Gabriela Pacheco originally from?

5. What is the name of the author's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the clerk at the DMV tell Vargas when he went to apply for a driver's license at age 16? How did this impact his life?

2. What led to the author confessing his undocumented status to Mrs. Denny?

3. What did Mrs. Wakefield say to Vargas about his race in Part 1, Chapter 4?

4. Why did turning thirty weigh especially heavy on the author?

5. What musical was the author moved by when watching the 1998 Tony Awards? Why?

6. What does the author describe as his "first legal American papers" (2) in the Prologue?

7. What led to Vargas writing his first article for the Mountain View Voice?

8. How did the author's grandparents feel about him moving to Washington, DC to work at the Washington Post? Why?

9. For what publication did Vargas interview Mark Zuckerberg? How does he describe him?

10. What are some of the movies that the author watched in his immersion into American culture, as described in Part 1, Chapter 1? What did he think of them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss immigration policies and perceptions of immigrants during the presidency of Donald Trump. How has Trump's platform approached the topic of immigration? What policies are in place regarding refugees? How has public opinion regarding immigration changed during the Trump administration?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of radical transparency in Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen. What does this term mean? How is it demonstrated through the author's actions? What have been the repercussions he has faced as a result of radical transparency?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the illegal acts that the author confesses to committing in Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen. What was his first willful illegal act? How do you think you would have acted if you were in the same position? How did the author feel about this act?

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