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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 time of the year do the two boys visit their uncle?

2. What country is the narrator's aunt and uncle moving to?

3. What part of Ysrael's body did the pig eat off?

4. What is the name of the second section of the story?

5. What is Ysrael doing in the field?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did security catch Beto and Yunior shoplifting?

3. What does the reader know about Papi from the other stories?

4. How did Ysrael disfigure his face?

5. How did Papi and Mami try to cure the narrator of his car sickness?

6. What is happening when the narrator returns with the burgers?

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

8. What is chapter four about?

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

10. What does Papi tell Mami on the phone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a 500-word essay revolving around one of the following statements.

1) In Drown, Diaz portrays Latino culture in a negative light.

2) The book is about growing up and the final two stories, told from different points of view, shows how far Yunior had come from the early days of drug dealing and stealing.

3) Yunior's stealing and homophobic behavior is the side product of poverty and being an outsider.

Essay Topic 2

Away from the main character examine the way Diaz uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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