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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 behavior among infected individuals did doctors note several months after it began?

2. What happened to the worst cases of infections after about 6 months?

3. How many people became infected within the first couple of months?

4. What is significant about that March when the first boy caught the infection in a camp outside of Port-Au-Prince?

5. What is the name of the girl the narrator was interested in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Away from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the story. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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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