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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the other name for La Negrura?

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

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