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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. Who is Alex's girlfriend?
(a) Mysty.
(b) Valentina.
(c) Sonia.
(d) Livia.

2. Where does the narrator first meet Mysty?
(a) Alex's apartment.
(b) The airport.
(c) A dance club.
(d) School.

3. When discussing his friendship with Mysty, the narrator says he spoke as if someone had overdosed him with what?
(a) Amphetamines.
(b) Sleeping pills.
(c) Truth serum.
(d) Whiskey.

4. What does the narrator say was Mysty's "protective screen" (9)?
(a) Appearing bored.
(b) Playing dumb.
(c) Acting mean.
(d) Reading books.

5. Why did Alex want to go to Haiti?
(a) To try to help the infected.
(b) To donate money to local hospitals.
(c) To find his father.
(d) To photograph the infected.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Alex's GPA at school?

2. What does Alex say when the narrator ask if he and Mysty had ever had a relationship?

3. Despite his good qualities, to whom was Alex often rude?

4. Why does Alex say the narrator would not last long on the Island?

5. What was Henri Casimir doing which concerned his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Mysty dream of moving one day? What did she plan to do there?

2. What does the reader learn of Mysty's backstory after he says much of his memory of her was lost after the Fall?

3. What does the narrator think about Mysty the first time they meet? Why does Mysty pick on the narrator?

4. Why does Alex not see his parents very often?

5. Why does Alex want to go to Haiti once La Negrura hit?

6. What part of Alex's past does the narrator attribute to his playing down his wealth while at Brown?

7. What does Alex tell the narrator about Mysty's father? How does the narrator feel about this news?

8. How do Mysty and the narrator's mother react when he suggests he may take a semester off to stay in the D.R.?

9. Unlike Alex, who wanted to change everyone with his art, what was the narrator's ambition?

10. Why did the narrator think Mysty and Alex may have been more than friends at some point?

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