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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Alex think a photograph had the potential to do?

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

4. When discussing his friendship with Mysty, the narrator says he spoke as if someone had overdosed him with what?

5. How tall was Alex?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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