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

2. 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 walked around huddled under blankets because they were always freezing.
(d) They stopped opening their eyes.

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 longest in recorded history.
(d) It was the darkest in recorded history.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the girl the narrator was interested in?

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

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

4. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

5. How old was the first person to have caught the infection?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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