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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 time of the year do the two boys visit their uncle?

2. Who has Yunior had homosexual experiences with?

3. What is the name of the second short story?

4. What does Yunior say he now does instead of shoplifting?

5. What does Rafa collect from people as they board the bus?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Rafa and the narrator on the bus?

2. How does Rafa treat his brother in the city?

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

4. How does Ysrael try to help the two boys?

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

6. Why does Papi push his way to the shower as soon as he arrives home?

7. What happens to Papi when he drinks?

8. How does the narrator spend the evening with his girlfriend?

9. What is chapter four about?

10. Why did the narrator and his brother spend their summers with their uncle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Examine Latino life.

1) What are Latino's and how do they view life?

2) What influence have Latinos had on popular culture?

3) How does the author express both the negative and positive aspects of Latino life? How has Latino life shaped him?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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