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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Diaz describe the way in which the infection spread?
(a) A slow molasses pour.
(b) A slow leprous spread.
(c) A thunderous blast.
(d) A lighting strike.

2. How did Alex make money?
(a) Photograpy.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Modeling.
(d) Writing.

3. What was the other name for La Negrura?
(a) The Plague.
(b) The Darkness.
(c) The Sunburn.
(d) The Sickness.

4. How many people became infected within the first couple of months?
(a) A couple.
(b) A couple hundred.
(c) A couple thousand.
(d) A couple million.

5. What rumors began to spread about infected people?
(a) They were devils.
(b) They were spies.
(c) They were robots.
(d) They were zombies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was the narrator's mother living before moving back to the Dominican Republic?

3. What did the narrator tell Alex's friends he was hoping to become?

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

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

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