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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) Americans.
(b) Europeans.
(c) Dominicans.
(d) Haitians.

2. What term was used to describe the moment when all infected individuals let out a "bizarre shriek" (4)?
(a) The Plep.
(b) The Shriek.
(c) The Utterance.
(d) The Chorus.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of currency is used in "Monstro"?

2. What strange thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?

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

4. How did Alex make money?

5. Where was the narrator's mother living before moving back to the Dominican Republic?

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

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

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

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

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

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 people first react to La Negrura, according to the narrator at the start of the story?

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

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

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