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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were people not too worried about the infections in the beginning?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Is the narrator being honest when he says his mother did not really want him around her when she was sick? Explain.

2. What did Alex tell his friends when he introduced them to the narrator? How did his friends react when the narrator told them what he was hoping to become?

3. What are some the strange behaviors the infected displayed months after the initial outbreak?

4. Why did interest in La Negrura wane fairly soon after the initial infection?

5. How did the narrator react when he first heard of La Negrura? What was he more occupied with at the time?

6. Why did the narrator's mother initially come back to the Dominican Republic after living in Brooklyn?

7. How did the narrator's mother and aunt feel about the situation in Haiti?

8. Why was it easy to blame the heat on the outbreak of La Negrura?

9. Who is Alex? How does he know the narrator? In what ways are they different?

10. How did people first react to La Negrura, according to the narrator at the start of the story?

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