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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 is significant about that March when the first boy caught the infection in a camp outside of Port-Au-Prince?
2. Which country's factories were producing a lot of pharmaceuticals in the Dominican Republic in "Monstro"?
3. What was the situation with the narrator's mom when the "world came to an end" (1)?
4. What happened to the worst cases of infections after about 6 months?
5. How did Alex make money?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are some the strange behaviors the infected displayed months after the initial outbreak?
2. 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?
3. Why did interest in La Negrura wane fairly soon after the initial infection?
4. Who is Alex? How does he know the narrator? In what ways are they different?
5. Is the narrator being honest when he says his mother did not really want him around her when she was sick? Explain.
6. How did people first react to La Negrura, according to the narrator at the start of the story?
7. Why did the narrator's mother initially come back to the Dominican Republic after living in Brooklyn?
8. How did the narrator react when he first heard of La Negrura? What was he more occupied with at the time?
9. Why was it easy to blame the heat on the outbreak of La Negrura?
10. How did the narrator's mother and aunt feel about the situation in Haiti?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Diaz's language style and word choice in "Monstro." What are some words that stand out to you and why? What words are repeated? What words are most impactful? Explain your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring the role of mothers in "Monstro." Describe the narrator, Alex, and Mysty's relationship with their mothers and discuss how these relationship develop the plot.
Essay Topic 3
Pick a character from the story and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters' goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?
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