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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 do the kids swim at night?

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

3. What do the kids now recognize Yunior as?

4. What is the name of the second section of the story?

5. What does the narrator's aunt give him to eat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who do the narrator and Cut sell drugs to?

4. What does the reader know about Papi from the other stories?

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

6. Why is Papi upset with the narrator?

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

8. What is happening when the narrator returns with the burgers?

9. How does Rafa beat up Ysrael?

10. How do the family react when Papi sends them a second letter saying he is coming home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the novel's dialogue. Explain how does Diaz's dialogue contributes to the following areas:

1) Character

2) Setting

3) Plot

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

Yunior has a close relationship with his mother. Why is a mother's relationship with her child so important? How has Yunior' relationship with his mother shaped his character?

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