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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. Which community was impacted by the infection?
(a) Dominicans.
(b) Europeans.
(c) Americans.
(d) Haitians.

2. 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.

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

4. What is the first thing people blame when the infections began to spread?
(a) The famine.
(b) The heat.
(c) The president.
(d) The cold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

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

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

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

5. Who picks the narrator up from the airport when he first arrives in the Dominican for the summer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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