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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term was used to describe the moment when all infected individuals let out a "bizarre shriek" (4)?

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

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

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

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

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