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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. During which week of September did Francisco move into the dorms at the start of his sophomore year?

2. What form of transportation did Francisco's father use to travel to Tlaquepaque?

3. By Francisco's junior year in college, he was still uncomfortable taking what action?

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

5. What position at the college did Rafael Hernandez inhabit when Jimenez first befriended him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss an instance when Jimenez uses a literary device to underscore the theme of collectivism.

3. What instruction did Father O'Neill give to Jimenez about his body language one day during a walk?

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

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

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

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

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 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

What ultimate message is Jimenez sending about the mythical qualities of the United States?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Jimenez's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of Reaching Out.

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