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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. In what location on campus did Francisco often take long walks?
(a) The Mission Gardens.
(b) The track at the university.
(c) The Embarcadero Gardens.
(d) The Los Altos Hills.

2. In what month did Francisco return home from college to find his father gone?
(a) May.
(b) December.
(c) April.
(d) June.

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

4. Father O'Neill taught a class in the History of what subject?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Civilization.
(c) Archaeological discoveries.
(d) Transportation.

5. Which of Francisco's siblings did he often watch all day within the confines of the family car when he was young?
(a) Rorra.
(b) Ruben.
(c) Roberto.
(d) Trampita.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many dollars did Francisco earn in exchange for delivering Christmas presents for Mrs. Hancock?

2. For how many credits did Francisco register during his first semester of sophomore year?

3. By Francisco's junior year in college, he was still uncomfortable taking what action?

4. Anxious about troubles at home, Francisco began to engage in which activity with Smokey each morning at six?

5. Which member of Francisco's family had been an avid supporter of John F. Kennedy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What parallel does Jimenez draw between regression and oppression in the scene of his father's drunken tirade?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Jimenez characterize the emotions he felt upon returning to the University of Santa Clara to begin his sophomore year?

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

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