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

2. Where did the narrator meet Alex?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Brown.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What strange thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?

5. What was the narrator doing when "the world came to an end" (1)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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