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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 was the name of the person who took care of Papa after he returned to Mexico?

2. Jimenez shared with Laura in the chapter entitled "A Secret Revealed" that his family had come to the United States illegally when he was how old?

3. How many weeks before Francisco's arrival from college had his father departed for Mexico?

4. How old was Francisco's sibling at the time of contracting an illness while the family lived in Tent City?

5. Francisco aspired to take on what work position under the supervision of Dr. Martha James Hardman de Bautista?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was Emily and how did Jimenez make her acquaintance?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Which classes constituted Jimenez's favorites during the first semester of his sophomore year?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way does Jimenez utilize irony within the text? Discuss at least three uses of irony within Reaching Out and explore each instance's connection to larger themes contained within the piece.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Jimenez's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different locations in a particular way 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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