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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 are some things Mysty picked on the narrator for when they first met?
(a) He was poor and his clothes were outdated.
(b) He was too American and his Spanish was lousy.
(c) He could not handle his liquor and he didn't smoke.
(d) He could not dance and he did not drink.

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

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

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

5. Despite his good qualities, to whom was Alex often rude?
(a) Club and restaurant workers.
(b) His friends.
(c) HIs parents.
(d) His teachers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During what time does Casimir consistently wander in the direction of the quarantine zone?

3. What does the narrator say was Mysty's "protective screen" (9)?

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

5. What type of camera does Alex use?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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