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

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

3. What invented word does Diaz include to refer to text messages?
(a) Whorls.
(b) Plypts.
(c) Pleps.
(d) Glypts.

4. Who does the narrator believe were the only people he knew paying attention to the infections in Haiti at first?
(a) His friends.
(b) Himself.
(c) His professors.
(d) His mother and aunt.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Alex make money?

3. Which country's factories were producing a lot of pharmaceuticals in the Dominican Republic in "Monstro"?

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

5. Which community was impacted by the infection?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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