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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 is the name of the father that teaches Ysrael to read?

2. What does Yunior take from the customer's kitchens?

3. Where will a halfie say her parents met?

4. What does weed make Yunior do?

5. What does Papi dream about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ysrael injure himself when he dreams of the pig?

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

3. Why does Yunior think the boyfriend is going to leave his girlfriend?

4. Why does Yunior need to avoid Howie when he is on a date?

5. Why can Yunior not forget about his girlfriend?

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

7. What is Yunior's job?

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

9. How does Ysrael show his superhuman strength to the cleaning lady?

10. Why do dogs cause Ysrael problems?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the stories. In what way are these themes relevant to the time period and setting? How does Diaz use character and setting to express his themes?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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