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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 was the narrator's mother living before moving back to the Dominican Republic?
(a) Providence.
(b) Boston.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Brooklyn.

2. With whom did Alex seem to spend most of this time?
(a) Valentina.
(b) Mysty.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

3. How old was the first person to have caught the infection?
(a) 32.
(b) 4.
(c) 64.
(d) 16.

4. What does Alex say when the narrator ask if he and Mysty had ever had a relationship?
(a) Not yet.
(b) Of course.
(c) Disgusting.
(d) She is like my sister.

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 does the narrator say all 19-year-olds are when discussing his difficulty being around his sick mother?

2. Which of Mysty's family members did Alex tell the narrator had raped her?

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

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

5. Why did Alex want to go to Haiti?

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