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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 Room.
(b) The Dome.
(c) The Cloud.
(d) The Shield.

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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 old.
(c) It only seemed to affect the very sick.
(d) It only seemed to affect the very young.

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

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

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

11. 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 died within an hour.
(c) She was cured.
(d) She became comatose.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the narrator doing when "the world came to an end" (1)?

5. Who does the narrator believe were the only people he knew paying attention to the infections in Haiti at first?

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