On warm sunny days, luis rolls down the windows and drives for hours and hours.

the word drives is an example of

a noun.
a verb.
an adjective.
an adverb.

In the sentence provided we see several parts of speech. The word drives is an example of a verb. A verb expresses the action of a person or object and gives us very important information, in this case we know what Luis does on warm sunny days. The correct option is the second one, a verb. Here, we also have a parallel construction, one same subject and two verbs in the same form.

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.