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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 did the narrator begin to consider doing in order to stay on the Island an try to get close to Mysty?
(a) Take a semester off school.
(b) Quit school and get a job on the Island.
(c) Transfer to Unibe.
(d) Move into Alex's place full time.

2. What was Alex's GPA at school?
(a) 2.5.
(b) 3.0.
(c) 4.0.
(d) 1.4.

3. Where did Alex's mother go every week to shop?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Providence.
(d) Miami.

4. What does the narrator say was "like a national pastime" (9) in the Dominican Republic?
(a) Eating.
(b) Football.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Incest.

5. How tall was Alex?
(a) 6'8.
(b) 4'11.
(c) 8'9.
(d) 5'5.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. With whom did Alex seem to spend most of this time?

4. Where did Mysty want to move once she graduated?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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