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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the other name for La Negrura?

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

4. Where did the narrator meet Alex?

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

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