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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interest do the narrator and Alex share, which he sense was seen as "a serious mental health disorder" (5)?
(a) Art.
(b) Current Events.
(c) History.
(d) Philosophy.

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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 darkest in recorded history.
(b) It was the hottest in recorded history.
(c) It was the longest in recorded history.
(d) It was the coldest in recorded history.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

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

5. What strange behavior among infected individuals did doctors note several months after it began?

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