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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 - 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the girl the narrator was interested in?
(a) Megsy.
(b) Mysty.
(c) Mitsy.
(d) Mandy.

3. Which community was impacted by the infection?
(a) Europeans.
(b) Americans.
(c) Haitians.
(d) Dominicans.

4. Where did the narrator meet Alex?
(a) Brown.
(b) Yale.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

5. Why were people not too worried about the infections in the beginning?
(a) It only seemed to affect the very sick.
(b) It only seemed to affect the very young.
(c) It only seemed to affect the very old.
(d) It only seemed to affect the very rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the worst cases of infections after about 6 months?

2. Who does the narrator believe were the only people he knew paying attention to the infections in Haiti at first?

3. What was the narrator doing when "the world came to an end" (1)?

4. What was the other name for La Negrura?

5. How old was the first person to have caught the infection?

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