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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. Where did the narrator meet Alex?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Brown.
(c) Yale.
(d) Princeton.

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

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

4. What did the narrator tell Alex's friends he was hoping to become?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A model.
(c) A photographer.
(d) A journalist.

5. How did Alex make money?
(a) Photograpy.
(b) Modeling.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say all 19-year-olds are when discussing his difficulty being around his sick mother?

2. Which community was impacted by the infection?

3. How old was the first person to have caught the infection?

4. What is the name of the place the narrator spent much of his time thanks to his friend, Alex?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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