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

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

4. 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) Himself.
(d) His mother and aunt.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

11. 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 began eating their own limbs.
(c) They stopped opening their eyes.
(d) They wanted to be near each other all the time.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

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

3. Which community was impacted by the infection?

4. Where was the narrator's mother living before moving back to the Dominican Republic?

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

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