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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. In what year was the Jimenez family deported to Mexico before returning to immigrate to the United States legally?

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

3. Whose nickname was Trampita?

4. How many hours per week did Francisco work during his first summer home from college?

5. On which of Francisco's initial days at college was he scheduled to take an English placement test?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which aspect of Jimenez's departure for college causes him unexpected pain?

2. For what length of time did the Jimenez family live in the United States after their first arrival there?

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

4. What element of the student body's demographics surprises Jimenez when he arrives at the University of Santa Clara?

5. For what reason do Jimenez's mother and father stay in the car during the move into the dormitory?

6. What did a green uniform used to signify for Jimenez and why?

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

8. From what source do Francisco's ideas about college emerge prior to moving into his dormitory?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Jimenez's message regarding the difference between awareness and activism and how does Jimenez get this message across to the reader?

Essay Topic 2

What is the purpose of the photographs included within Reaching Out?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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