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

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

3. What does Alex say when the narrator ask if he and Mysty had ever had a relationship?
(a) Not yet.
(b) Of course.
(c) Disgusting.
(d) She is like my sister.

4. Why does Alex say the narrator would not last long on the Island?
(a) He is too gringo.
(b) He is too poor.
(c) He is too lazy.
(d) He is too restless.

5. Where did Mysty and her mother and stepfather live for 5 years?
(a) Quebec.
(b) New York.
(c) Miami.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Dr. Noni DeGraff from?

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

3. How tall was Alex?

4. What did Mysty say she was more interested in having than a boyfriend?

5. What would Mysty rather die than admit to having according to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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 not see his parents very often?

(see the answer keys)

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