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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) Europeans.
(b) Dominicans.
(c) Haitians.
(d) Americans.
2. How many people became infected within the first couple of months?
(a) A couple.
(b) A couple million.
(c) A couple hundred.
(d) A couple thousand.
3. What interest do the narrator and Alex share, which he sense was seen as "a serious mental health disorder" (5)?
(a) Current Events.
(b) Art.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) History.
4. Where did the narrator meet Alex?
(a) Yale.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Brown.
(d) Harvard.
5. 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 old.
(d) It only seemed to affect the very sick.
Short Answer Questions
1. What form of currency is used in "Monstro"?
2. How does Diaz describe the way in which the infection spread?
3. What is the name of the girl the narrator was interested in?
4. What is significant about that March when the first boy caught the infection in a camp outside of Port-Au-Prince?
5. Who picks the narrator up from the airport when he first arrives in the Dominican for the summer?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Alex? How does he know the narrator? In what ways are they different?
2. Why was it easy to blame the heat on the outbreak of La Negrura?
3. How did the narrator's mother and aunt feel about the situation in Haiti?
4. How did people first react to La Negrura, according to the narrator at the start of the story?
5. How did the narrator react when he first heard of La Negrura? What was he more occupied with at the time?
6. Why did interest in La Negrura wane fairly soon after the initial infection?
7. Is the narrator being honest when he says his mother did not really want him around her when she was sick? Explain.
8. What are some the strange behaviors the infected displayed months after the initial outbreak?
9. 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?
10. Why did the narrator's mother initially come back to the Dominican Republic after living in Brooklyn?
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