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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 does Alex say is "the most beautiful country in the world" (10)?
(a) Haiti.
(b) America.
(c) Canada.
(d) The Dominican Republic.

2. Where is Dr. Noni DeGraff from?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Canada.
(c) America.
(d) France.

3. Where did Mysty want to move once she graduated?
(a) Paris.
(b) Quebec.
(c) New York.
(d) Miami.

4. What subject was Mysty studying at Unibe?
(a) International Law.
(b) Sociology.
(c) French.
(d) Philosophy.

5. What did the narrator realize about Alex after spending time with him on the Island?
(a) He was a prince.
(b) He was not very smart.
(c) He was not actually rich.
(d) He was even wealthier than he thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall was Alex?

2. Where did Alex's mother go every week to shop?

3. What are some things Mysty picked on the narrator for when they first met?

4. What type of camera does Alex use?

5. What does Mysty say when the narrator expresses an interest in staying on the Island?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did Alex do when a farmer in Bani found an unexploded bomb on his farm?

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