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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the first thing people blame when the infections began to spread?
(a) The famine.
(b) The cold.
(c) The president.
(d) The heat.

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

4. What was the situation with the narrator's mom when the "world came to an end" (1)?
(a) She was busy working.
(b) She was missing.
(c) She was sick.
(d) She was helping sick people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which community was impacted by the infection?

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

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

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

5. What form of currency is used in "Monstro"?

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