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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. Who has Yunior seen the boyfriend come onto at bars?

2. What is the brand name of the cheap pool tables?

3. What does the rock chick use to kill roaches?

4. What does Ysrael look for outside of the bars?

5. What is the name of Yunior's colleague?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Yunior describe most of his customers?

2. How does Pruit almost get Yunior fired?

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

4. Why do dogs cause Ysrael problems?

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

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

7. Who does Ysrael meet in the doctor's waiting room?

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

9. How does Yunior punish the customers if they don't leave a tip?

10. How does Papi put Mami and the children into trouble?

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

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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