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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 was the other name for La Negrura?

2. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

3. How does Diaz describe the way in which the infection spread?

4. What interest do the narrator and Alex share, which he sense was seen as "a serious mental health disorder" (5)?

5. How did Alex make money?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Superstition plays a role in "Monstro" when people try to find reason for the infections. Write an essay exploring the role of superstition in the story.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the author of "Monstro." Who is he? What else has he written? How is "Monstro" similar or different from his previous works?

Essay Topic 3

What makes the narrator the protagonist of this story? Compare his role in the story to definitions of protagonists.

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