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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) Applying for jobs.
(c) Studying for finals.
(d) Chasing a girl.

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

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

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

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

6. 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 died within an hour.
(d) She tore off her restraints and began to crawl back to the quarantine zone.

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

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

9. What is the name of the girl the narrator was interested in?
(a) Megsy.
(b) Mysty.
(c) Mitsy.
(d) Mandy.

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

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

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

13. What term was used to describe the moment when all infected individuals let out a "bizarre shriek" (4)?
(a) The Shriek.
(b) The Utterance.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) The Plep.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the place the narrator spent much of his time thanks to his friend, Alex?

3. What word is used for the internet in "Monstro"?

4. What did the narrator tell Alex's friends he was hoping to become?

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

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