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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Diaz describe the way in which the infection spread?
(a) A slow molasses pour.
(b) A slow leprous spread.
(c) A lighting strike.
(d) A thunderous blast.

2. What does the narrator say all 19-year-olds are when discussing his difficulty being around his sick mother?
(a) Squeemish.
(b) Shallow.
(c) Loyal.
(d) Losers.

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

4. Which country's factories were producing a lot of pharmaceuticals in the Dominican Republic in "Monstro"?
(a) America.
(b) France.
(c) India.
(d) China.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What rumors began to spread about infected people?
(a) They were spies.
(b) They were devils.
(c) They were robots.
(d) They were zombies.

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

12. Where did the narrator meet Alex?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Brown.
(d) Yale.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the other name for La Negrura?

2. What strange thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?

3. What is the name of the girl the narrator was interested in?

4. How old was the first person to have caught the infection?

5. What term was used to describe the moment when all infected individuals let out a "bizarre shriek" (4)?

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