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

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

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

5. What was the narrator doing when "the world came to an end" (1)?
(a) Volunteering in Haiti.
(b) Studying for finals.
(c) Chasing a girl.
(d) Applying for jobs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

3. What term was used to describe the moment when all infected individuals let out a "bizarre shriek" (4)?

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

5. Where did the narrator meet Alex?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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