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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term was used to describe the moment when all infected individuals let out a "bizarre shriek" (4)?
(a) The Shriek.
(b) The Chorus.
(c) The Plep.
(d) The Utterance.

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

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

5. What did the narrator tell Alex's friends he was hoping to become?
(a) A photographer.
(b) A journalist.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A model.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

2. What was the other name for La Negrura?

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

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

5. Why were people not too worried about the infections in the beginning?

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