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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the narrator doing when "the world came to an end" (1)?
(a) Volunteering in Haiti.
(b) Chasing a girl.
(c) Applying for jobs.
(d) Studying for finals.

2. What form of currency is used in "Monstro"?
(a) The peso.
(b) The ruble.
(c) The dollar.
(d) The renminbi.

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

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

5. What was the situation with the narrator's mom when the "world came to an end" (1)?
(a) She was sick.
(b) She was busy working.
(c) She was missing.
(d) She was helping sick people.

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

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

8. Who does the narrator believe were the only people he knew paying attention to the infections in Haiti at first?
(a) His professors.
(b) His friends.
(c) His mother and aunt.
(d) Himself.

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

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

11. What was the other name for La Negrura?
(a) The Plague.
(b) The Sunburn.
(c) The Darkness.
(d) The Sickness.

12. Why were people not too worried about the infections in the beginning?
(a) It only seemed to affect the very old.
(b) It only seemed to affect the very young.
(c) It only seemed to affect the very sick.
(d) It only seemed to affect the very rich.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What invented word does Diaz include to refer to text messages?

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

3. Where did the narrator meet Alex?

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

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

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