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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. Smokey found fault with which habit of Francisco's and sought to fix it?
2. For how many months did Francisco and Roberto live together on their own in the United States?
3. Which author's work was the focus of Francisco's first English essay assigned in college?
4. The student who gave Francisco and Smokey a ride back to their dorm bragged about attending what college?
5. What was the true answer to Smokey's question about where Francisco had been born?
Short Essay Questions
1. What unexpected benefit comes from Jimenez's donning of a green uniform for ROTC?
2. What caused Jimenez to join the Reserve Officers Training Corps during college?
3. What did a green uniform used to signify for Jimenez and why?
4. For what reason do Jimenez's mother and father stay in the car during the move into the dormitory?
5. Describe an instance when Jimenez uses a simile in order to underscore the nature of a particular emotion.
6. What element of the student body's demographics surprises Jimenez when he arrives at the University of Santa Clara?
7. What part of Jimenez's membership in the ROTC did he enjoy?
8. Describe the conflicted nature of Jimenez's feelings as the memoir opens.
9. How did Jimenez come to be an avid fan of Elvis Presley?
10. What part of Jimenez's membership in the ROTC did he loathe?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the purpose of the photographs included within Reaching Out?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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