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

2. What is the name of the place the narrator spent much of his time thanks to his friend, Alex?
(a) The Shield.
(b) The Cloud.
(c) The Dome.
(d) The Room.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is significant about that March when the first boy caught the infection in a camp outside of Port-Au-Prince?

3. What was the other name for La Negrura?

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

5. How many people became infected within the first couple of months?

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 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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