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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 was the other name for La Negrura?
(a) The Sunburn.
(b) The Sickness.
(c) The Plague.
(d) The Darkness.

2. Why were people not too worried about the infections in the beginning?
(a) It only seemed to affect the very sick.
(b) It only seemed to affect the very young.
(c) It only seemed to affect the very rich.
(d) It only seemed to affect the very old.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which community was impacted by the infection?

2. How did Alex make money?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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