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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. What object did Rafael Hernandez give to Francisco as a gift before returning to Mexico to join his family?

2. While still in high school, Francisco organized a food drive for migrant families in what city?

3. What objects were embedded in Francisco's father's chin and hands when he was found sprawled out on the grass?

4. In what location on campus did Francisco often take long walks?

5. Father O'Neill taught a class in the History of what subject?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What similarities did Emily and Jimenez find within their childhood experiences at school?

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

4. What major secret of his own did Jimenez reveal to Laura in the chapter entitled "A Secret Revealed"?

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

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

7. What special significance did the Thanksgiving holiday hold for Jimenez and why?

8. What reasons did Rafael Hernandez give Jimenez for his decision to return to Mexico?

9. In what way is the act of taking initiative portrayed in a positive light within Reaching Out?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Jimenez’s use of characterization methods to portray real people. What effect do these characterization methods have on the work's inherent themes and messages?

Essay Topic 2

Read a lengthy interview with Jimenez. Write an essay explaining the connection between several of Jimenez’s answers and a major theme presented within the text of Reaching Out.

Essay Topic 3

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

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