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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 6 - 10 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator first meet Mysty?
(a) Alex's apartment.
(b) A dance club.
(c) The airport.
(d) School.

2. Who does the narrator believe were the only people he knew paying attention to the infections in Haiti at first?
(a) His friends.
(b) His professors.
(c) His mother and aunt.
(d) Himself.

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

4. Which of Mysty's family members did Alex tell the narrator had raped her?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her stepfather.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her father.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interest do the narrator and Alex share, which he sense was seen as "a serious mental health disorder" (5)?

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

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

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

5. What was the other name for La Negrura?

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