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

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

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

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

5. What interest do the narrator and Alex share, which he sense was seen as "a serious mental health disorder" (5)?
(a) History.
(b) Art.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Current Events.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the place the narrator spent much of his time thanks to his friend, Alex?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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