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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is significant about that March when the first boy caught the infection in a camp outside of Port-Au-Prince?
(a) It was the darkest in recorded history.
(b) It was the longest in recorded history.
(c) It was the coldest in recorded history.
(d) It was the hottest in recorded history.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Diaz describe the way in which the infection spread?

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

3. What was the situation with the narrator's mom when the "world came to an end" (1)?

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

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

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