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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 kind of tree did Yunior try to stab?

2. What is the name of the second short story?

3. What does Rafa hit Ysrael with?

4. What part of the narrator's body is cut when he wakes up?

5. What does Aguantando mean?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What homosexual experiences has Yunior had?

3. Who do the narrator and Cut sell drugs to?

4. What happens to Rafa and the narrator on the bus?

5. How did security catch Beto and Yunior shoplifting?

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

7. Why does Papi push his way to the shower as soon as he arrives home?

8. What is chapter four about?

9. How does Mami react when Papi writes that he is coming home?

10. Why does Yunior call his mother shadow warrior?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the generation gap between younger and the older characters. What different experiences did both generations go through? What problems is the generation gap causing the characters? Is the generational gap expressed in Drown particularly wide during this time or is a wide generational gap common to all ages?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Latino life.

1) What are Latino's and how do they view life?

2) What influence have Latinos had on popular culture?

3) How does the author express both the negative and positive aspects of Latino life? How has Latino life shaped him?

Essay Topic 3

Drown is a collection of short stories. What are the differences between a short story and a novel in terms of the following?

1) Language

2) Character

3) Structure

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