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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 of Mysty's family members did Alex tell the narrator had raped her?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her stepfather.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her brother.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alex say is "the most beautiful country in the world" (10)?

2. Where would Mysty often pick the narrator up to bring him to Alex's?

3. What did the narrator realize about Alex after spending time with him on the Island?

4. Where is Dr. Noni DeGraff from?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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