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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 strange thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?
(a) They stopped sleeping.
(b) They stopped speaking.
(c) They could not stop eating.
(d) They went blind.

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

3. Who picks the narrator up from the airport when he first arrives in the Dominican for the summer?
(a) Mysty.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His mother.
(d) Alex.

4. Where was the narrator's mother living before moving back to the Dominican Republic?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Providence.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Boston.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

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

4. What did the narrator tell Alex's friends he was hoping to become?

5. What does the narrator say all 19-year-olds are when discussing his difficulty being around his sick mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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