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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 girl the narrator was interested in?
(a) Mitsy.
(b) Mandy.
(c) Megsy.
(d) Mysty.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

12. 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 helping sick people.
(c) She was missing.
(d) She was sick.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when a doctor from Martinique took an elderly infected woman to an offshore hospital?

2. Which country's factories were producing a lot of pharmaceuticals in the Dominican Republic in "Monstro"?

3. What does the narrator say all 19-year-olds are when discussing his difficulty being around his sick mother?

4. What is the first thing people blame when the infections began to spread?

5. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

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