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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) Brown.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

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

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

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

5. Why were people not too worried about the infections in the beginning?
(a) It only seemed to affect the very young.
(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 old.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which community was impacted by the infection?

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

4. Who picks the narrator up from the airport when he first arrives in the Dominican for the summer?

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

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