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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. Where does the taxi driver drop Papi off?

2. What country is Howie from?

3. What did Papi take a bus to when he left Miami?

4. What is Yunior's Mami's first name?

5. What is the only thing a local girl will allow you to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Yunior suggest you should do before your date arrives?

2. Summarize the book?

3. Why can Yunior not forget about his girlfriend?

4. How do the boys injure Ysrael?

5. Why does Yunior like listening to the couple in the bathroom?

6. Where do Halfies always say about their parents?

7. How does Papi's back injury affect him?

8. What does Yunior predict at the end of the chapter?

9. Why does the date with the girlfriend go badly wrong?

10. Why does Yunior think the couple must be models?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the stories and helps to express character and theme.

1) Setting

2) Point of view

3) Structure

4) Language

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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