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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?

2. How old was the first person to have caught the infection?

3. What does the narrator say all 19-year-olds are when discussing his difficulty being around his sick mother?

4. What strange behavior among infected individuals did doctors note several months after it began?

5. What is the name of the place the narrator spent much of his time thanks to his friend, Alex?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is the narrator being honest when he says his mother did not really want him around her when she was sick? Explain.

2. Why did the narrator's mother initially come back to the Dominican Republic after living in Brooklyn?

3. How did the narrator react when he first heard of La Negrura? What was he more occupied with at the time?

4. What did Alex tell his friends when he introduced them to the narrator? How did his friends react when the narrator told them what he was hoping to become?

5. Why was it easy to blame the heat on the outbreak of La Negrura?

6. Why did interest in La Negrura wane fairly soon after the initial infection?

7. What are some the strange behaviors the infected displayed months after the initial outbreak?

8. How did the narrator's mother and aunt feel about the situation in Haiti?

9. How did people first react to La Negrura, according to the narrator at the start of the story?

10. Who is Alex? How does he know the narrator? In what ways are they different?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about foreshadowing in "Monstro." Define foreshadowing and identify moments of foreshadowing in the story. Discuss how foreshadowing impacted your reading of the story.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the story's themes?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing the imagery used in "Monstro." Indicate examples of imagery in the text and identify possible meanings.

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