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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When discussing his friendship with Mysty, the narrator says he spoke as if someone had overdosed him with what?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Amphetamines.
(c) Sleeping pills.
(d) Truth serum.

2. What is significant about that March when the first boy caught the infection in a camp outside of Port-Au-Prince?
(a) It was the coldest in recorded history.
(b) It was the longest in recorded history.
(c) It was the darkest in recorded history.
(d) It was the hottest in recorded history.

3. What happened when a doctor from Martinique took an elderly infected woman to an offshore hospital?
(a) She was cured.
(b) She became comatose.
(c) She tore off her restraints and began to crawl back to the quarantine zone.
(d) She died within an hour.

4. What does the narrator say was "like a national pastime" (9) in the Dominican Republic?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Eating.
(c) Football.
(d) Incest.

5. Who is Alex's girlfriend?
(a) Livia.
(b) Sonia.
(c) Valentina.
(d) Mysty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country's factories were producing a lot of pharmaceuticals in the Dominican Republic in "Monstro"?

2. What did the narrator realize about Alex after spending time with him on the Island?

3. What did the narrator begin to consider doing in order to stay on the Island an try to get close to Mysty?

4. Where is Dr. Noni DeGraff from?

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

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