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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 are some things Mysty picked on the narrator for when they first met?
(a) He could not dance and he did not drink.
(b) He could not handle his liquor and he didn't smoke.
(c) He was poor and his clothes were outdated.
(d) He was too American and his Spanish was lousy.

2. What strange behavior among infected individuals did doctors note several months after it began?
(a) They wanted to be near each other all the time.
(b) They stopped opening their eyes.
(c) They walked around huddled under blankets because they were always freezing.
(d) They began eating their own limbs.

3. Why did Alex want to go to Haiti?
(a) To find his father.
(b) To donate money to local hospitals.
(c) To photograph the infected.
(d) To try to help the infected.

4. What does Alex pack with him "just in case....something happens" (16) at the end of the story?
(a) His passport.
(b) His schoolbooks.
(c) His Polaroid camera.
(d) His gun.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the narrator use to describe the violence that occurred in the relocation camps near the quarantine zone?

2. What color showed on the thermal imager when directed at Casimir and later random pedestrians?

3. When discussing his friendship with Mysty, the narrator says he spoke as if someone had overdosed him with what?

4. What did people come to call the bombing that occurs toward the end of the story?

5. What happened at the club just as Mysty and the narrator are about to leave at the end of the story?

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