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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. Why were people not too worried about the infections in the beginning?

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

3. What form of currency is used in "Monstro"?

4. What word is used for the internet in "Monstro"?

5. Which country's factories were producing a lot of pharmaceuticals in the Dominican Republic in "Monstro"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Examine the use of dialogue vs the use of description. Look at how each is used in the story and what makes these uses effective or ineffective.

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think the author chose to make the main characters 19 years old? What does he say about this age? What would change if they were twice as old or half as young?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about why you think the narrator, Alex, and Mysty are drawn to one another.

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