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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Alex seem to spend most of this time?
(a) His father.
(b) Mysty.
(c) His mother.
(d) Valentina.

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

3. Who is Alex's girlfriend?
(a) Valentina.
(b) Sonia.
(c) Livia.
(d) Mysty.

4. What was Alex's GPA at school?
(a) 4.0.
(b) 1.4.
(c) 3.0.
(d) 2.5.

5. Where was the narrator's mother living before moving back to the Dominican Republic?
(a) Boston.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Providence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing people blame when the infections began to spread?

2. What happened when a doctor from Martinique took an elderly infected woman to an offshore hospital?

3. What do both Mysty and the narrator decide to do when Alex leaves at the end of the story?

4. How does Diaz describe the way in which the infection spread?

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

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