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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 form of currency is used in "Monstro"?
(a) The peso.
(b) The ruble.
(c) The dollar.
(d) The renminbi.

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

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

4. What invented word does Diaz include to refer to text messages?
(a) Whorls.
(b) Glypts.
(c) Plypts.
(d) Pleps.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the situation with the narrator's mom when the "world came to an end" (1)?

4. How many people became infected within the first couple of months?

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

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