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

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

4. What strange thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?
(a) They stopped sleeping.
(b) They could not stop eating.
(c) They stopped speaking.
(d) They went blind.

5. What interest do the narrator and Alex share, which he sense was seen as "a serious mental health disorder" (5)?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Art.
(c) Current Events.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Diaz describe the way in which the infection spread?

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

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

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

5. What happened when a doctor from Martinique took an elderly infected woman to an offshore hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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