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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 does Ysrael buy after his lessons?

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

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

4. What country does Papi want to take Mami to live?

5. What country is the delivery man from the Japanese restaurant from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Summarize the book?

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

7. How does Ysrael describe the pig?

8. How do the boys injure Ysrael?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following people and outline their influence on Yunior's life.

1) Rafa

2) His father

3) His mother

4) Beto

Essay Topic 2

Drown is a collection of short stories. What are the differences between a short story and a novel in terms of the following?

1) Language

2) Character

3) Structure

Essay Topic 3

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?

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