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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What strange thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?
(a) They went blind.
(b) They stopped sleeping.
(c) They stopped speaking.
(d) They could not stop eating.

3. 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.

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

5. What does the narrator say all 19-year-olds are when discussing his difficulty being around his sick mother?
(a) Loyal.
(b) Shallow.
(c) Losers.
(d) Squeemish.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is significant about that March when the first boy caught the infection in a camp outside of Port-Au-Prince?

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

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

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