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

2. What does the narrator say all 19-year-olds are when discussing his difficulty being around his sick mother?
(a) Squeemish.
(b) Shallow.
(c) Losers.
(d) Loyal.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the other name for La Negrura?

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

5. What word is used for the internet in "Monstro"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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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