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

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

3. What was the situation with the narrator's mom when the "world came to an end" (1)?
(a) She was sick.
(b) She was busy working.
(c) She was helping sick people.
(d) She was missing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the other name for La Negrura?

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

3. What is significant about that March when the first boy caught the infection in a camp outside of Port-Au-Prince?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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