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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. Which of the following type of food do they not serve at the party?

2. What is the name of Aurora's child?

3. What does Yunior remember his father wearing?

4. What does Rafa cal his father's beatings?

5. What does Rafa hit Ysrael with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the narrator and his friend Beto out of control?

2. How does Rafa treat his brother in the city?

3. How does Papi try to prevent the narrator from eating at the party?

4. What homosexual experiences has Yunior had?

5. How does Rafa beat up Ysrael?

6. How does the narrator spend the evening with his girlfriend?

7. What is chapter four about?

8. In what condition is the narrator's girlfriend?

9. Why did the narrator and his brother spend their summers with their uncle?

10. What happens to Papi when he drinks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following people and outline their influence on Yunior's life.

1) Rafa

2) His father

3) His mother

4) Beto

Essay Topic 2

Compare Yunior's character to the person he was in the Dominican Republic he is at the end of the book.

1) What does Yunior hope to achieve in America?

2) What events changes Yunior's ideas about life?

3) How has Yunior's character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Drown is a collection of short stories What are the mechanics of a short story in terms of the following?

1) Language

2) Character

3) Structure

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