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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the other name for La Negrura?
(a) The Plague.
(b) The Darkness.
(c) The Sickness.
(d) The Sunburn.

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

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

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

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

8. Why were people not too worried about the infections in the beginning?
(a) It only seemed to affect the very sick.
(b) It only seemed to affect the very young.
(c) It only seemed to affect the very old.
(d) It only seemed to affect the very rich.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

4. What happened to the worst cases of infections after about 6 months?

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

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