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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first thing people blame when the infections began to spread?
(a) The president.
(b) The heat.
(c) The cold.
(d) The famine.

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

3. What strange thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?
(a) They stopped sleeping.
(b) They went blind.
(c) They stopped speaking.
(d) They could not stop eating.

4. 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 hottest in recorded history.
(d) It was the darkest in recorded history.

5. What happened to the worst cases of infections after about 6 months?
(a) They became comatose.
(b) They went blind.
(c) They went deaf.
(d) They died.

6. Who picks the narrator up from the airport when he first arrives in the Dominican for the summer?
(a) Mysty.
(b) His aunt.
(c) Alex.
(d) His mother.

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

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

9. What is the name of the place the narrator spent much of his time thanks to his friend, Alex?
(a) The Room.
(b) The Shield.
(c) The Cloud.
(d) The Dome.

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

11. How did Alex make money?
(a) Writing.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Modeling.
(d) Photograpy.

12. What invented word does Diaz include to refer to text messages?
(a) Whorls.
(b) Pleps.
(c) Plypts.
(d) Glypts.

13. Which community was impacted by the infection?
(a) Haitians.
(b) Europeans.
(c) Americans.
(d) Dominicans.

14. What word is used for the internet in "Monstro"?
(a) El monstro.
(b) Whorl.
(c) Interwhirld.
(d) Webbie.

15. What strange behavior among infected individuals did doctors note several months after it began?
(a) They wanted to be near each other all the time.
(b) They began eating their own limbs.
(c) They walked around huddled under blankets because they were always freezing.
(d) They stopped opening their eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people became infected within the first couple of months?

2. Where did the narrator meet Alex?

3. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

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

5. What was the situation with the narrator's mom when the "world came to an end" (1)?

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