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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term was used to describe the moment when all infected individuals let out a "bizarre shriek" (4)?
(a) The Utterance.
(b) The Chorus.
(c) The Shriek.
(d) The Plep.

3. What happened to the worst cases of infections after about 6 months?
(a) They became comatose.
(b) They went deaf.
(c) They died.
(d) They went blind.

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

5. What happened when a doctor from Martinique took an elderly infected woman to an offshore hospital?
(a) She became comatose.
(b) She died within an hour.
(c) She was cured.
(d) She tore off her restraints and began to crawl back to the quarantine zone.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why were people not too worried about the infections in the beginning?

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

4. Who picks the narrator up from the airport when he first arrives in the Dominican for the summer?

5. Which country's factories were producing a lot of pharmaceuticals in the Dominican Republic in "Monstro"?

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