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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. The author's father was one of how many children?

2. Where in California did the author move to live with his grandparents?

3. What did the author score on his driving test in Oregon?

4. What airline did the author take when he first came to the U.S. from the Philippines?

5. What was the name of the author's childhood dog?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when the author was pulled over in 2008?

2. For what did the author win the Pulitzer Prize? How did he react?

3. How does the author describe the racial and ethnic makeup of Crittenden Middle School in Part 1, Chapter 4?

4. Why was the author's mother unable to immigrate to the U.S.?

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

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

7. What are some of the television shows that the author watched in his immersion into American culture, as described in Part 1, Chapter 1? How did they influence him?

8. How does the author briefly describe the colonial history of the Philippine islands in Part 1, Chapter 5?

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

10. What was Peter Perl's position at the Post when the author was doing his two-year internship there? Why did the author turn to Perl about his citizenship situation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the policies of U.S. Immigration during the Obama presidency. How did Obama's administration differ with those before it in terms of deportations and legal immigration? What policies focused on refugees? Does the author have a positive or negative opinion of Obama's immigration policies? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of family in Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen. What does family mean to the author? How does Filipino culture generally view family as an element of life? What different "families" did the author develop over time?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the author's arrest and detention in McAllen, Texas. When did the arrest and detention take place? Where was the author held? For hold long was he held? Why was he released?

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