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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 11 - 16 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people come to call the bombing that occurs toward the end of the story?
(a) The Blinding Incident.
(b) The End.
(c) The Great Whiteout.
(d) The Detonation Event.

2. What did the narrator's mother sell to make money?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Baked goods.
(c) Hair products.
(d) Jewelry.

3. What color showed on the thermal imager when directed at Casimir and later random pedestrians?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Orange.
(d) Yellow.

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

5. Where does Alex decide to drive his father's car to at the end of the story?
(a) The D.R/ Haiti border.
(b) The Dome.
(c) The airport.
(d) La Zona.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alex pack with him "just in case....something happens" (16) at the end of the story?

2. Where does the narrator first meet Mysty?

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

4. What do both Mysty and the narrator decide to do when Alex leaves at the end of the story?

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

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