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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the narrator doing when "the world came to an end" (1)?
(a) Applying for jobs.
(b) Studying for finals.
(c) Chasing a girl.
(d) Volunteering in Haiti.

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

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

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

7. What happened when a doctor from Martinique took an elderly infected woman to an offshore hospital?
(a) She became comatose.
(b) She was cured.
(c) She tore off her restraints and began to crawl back to the quarantine zone.
(d) She died within an hour.

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

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

10. What strange behavior among infected individuals did doctors note several months after it began?
(a) They began eating their own limbs.
(b) They wanted to be near each other all the time.
(c) They stopped opening their eyes.
(d) They walked around huddled under blankets because they were always freezing.

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

12. 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 hottest in recorded history.
(b) It was the coldest in recorded history.
(c) It was the darkest in recorded history.
(d) It was the longest in recorded history.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What interest do the narrator and Alex share, which he sense was seen as "a serious mental health disorder" (5)?

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

3. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

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

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

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