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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 has the narrator lived without for the first nine years of his life?

2. What part of America do the family move to?

3. What was the name of the neighbor Yunior used to play with?

4. What is Cut eating on the way home?

5. What kind of weapon does Rafa give his brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yunior call his mother shadow warrior?

2. How did security catch Beto and Yunior shoplifting?

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

4. How does the narrator feel when his girlfriend is released from the juvenile hall?

5. How does the aunt help out the narrator?

6. Why is Papi upset with the narrator?

7. What is chapter four about?

8. How does Mami react when Papi does not come?

9. Why is Mami afraid of living in her apartment?

10. What homosexual experiences has Yunior had?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Diaz wrote the stories in Drown in the first person. Why do you think Diaz chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the stories would change if Diaz wrote them in the third person?

Essay Topic 3

Ignatius has a difficult relationship with his father. Why is a father's relationship with his child so important? How has Yunior' relationship with his father shaped his character?

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