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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 11 - 16 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people come to call the bombing that occurs toward the end of the story?
(a) The Blinding Incident.
(b) The End.
(c) The Detonation Event.
(d) The Great Whiteout.

2. What do both Mysty and the narrator decide to do when Alex leaves at the end of the story?
(a) Check on their parents.
(b) Go with him.
(c) Stay in the Dome.
(d) Get married.

3. Who picks the narrator up from the airport when he first arrives in the Dominican for the summer?
(a) Mysty.
(b) Alex.
(c) His mother.
(d) His aunt.

4. What interest do the narrator and Alex share, which he sense was seen as "a serious mental health disorder" (5)?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Art.
(c) Current Events.
(d) History.

5. What did the narrator tell Alex's friends he was hoping to become?
(a) A photographer.
(b) A model.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A journalist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Alex decide to drive his father's car to at the end of the story?

2. What is the name of the place the narrator spent much of his time thanks to his friend, Alex?

3. What was Alex's GPA at school?

4. What invented word does Diaz include to refer to text messages?

5. What strange thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?

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