2. Which country's factories were producing a lot of pharmaceuticals in the Dominican Republic in "Monstro"?
(a) India.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) China.

3. What rumors began to spread about infected people?
(a) They were zombies.
(b) They were devils.
(c) They were robots.
(d) They were spies.

4. What did the narrator tell Alex's friends he was hoping to become?
(a) A journalist.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A photographer.
(d) A model.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the worst cases of infections after about 6 months?

2. Where did the narrator meet Alex?

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

4. How did Alex make money?

5. Who does the narrator believe were the only people he knew paying attention to the infections in Haiti at first?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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