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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 the chapter entitled "A Secret Revealed," what beverage did Laura and Jimenez drink as Francisco confided in Laura?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Milkshakes.
(c) Juice.
(d) Tea.

2. Anxious about troubles at home, Francisco began to engage in which activity with Smokey each morning at six?
(a) Meditating.
(b) Attending Mass.
(c) Playing one-on-one basketball.
(d) Running.

3. What position at the college did Rafael Hernandez inhabit when Jimenez first befriended him?
(a) Registrar.
(b) Electrician.
(c) Janitor.
(d) Professor.

4. Francisco explained to Laura that some Mexicans believe that the devil has the feet of what type of animal once he transforms himself into a man?
(a) A dog.
(b) A rooster.
(c) A goat.
(d) A horse.

5. To which literary character did Father O'Neill allude when instructing Francisco to hold his head up high while walking?
(a) David Copperfield.
(b) Don Juan.
(c) Holden Caulfield.
(d) Don Quixote.

Short Answer Questions

1. Laura was the only student in Professor de Bautista's class to exhibit which trait?

2. How many part-time jobs in total did Francisco hold at the same time during sophomore year?

3. In what month did Francisco return home from college to find his father gone?

4. Who was in charge of the Catholic student organization called Sodality of Our Lady?

5. In what grade did Francisco realize that he aspired to become a teacher?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What event caused Jimenez and Laura to have to spend more time together after they strike up an acquaintance?

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

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

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

10. What was Jimenez's single piece of knowledge about Sodality life before his conversation with Father O'Neill?

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