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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. How does Diaz describe the way in which the infection spread?
2. What was the situation with the narrator's mom when the "world came to an end" (1)?
3. What happened to the worst cases of infections after about 6 months?
4. What happened when a doctor from Martinique took an elderly infected woman to an offshore hospital?
5. How old was the first person to have caught the infection?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did people first react to La Negrura, according to the narrator at the start of the story?
2. Is the narrator being honest when he says his mother did not really want him around her when she was sick? Explain.
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. Why was it easy to blame the heat on the outbreak of La Negrura?
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 the narrator react when he first heard of La Negrura? What was he more occupied with at the time?
8. What are some the strange behaviors the infected displayed months after the initial outbreak?
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
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?
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
Write an essay comparing and contrasting the narrator and Alex in "Monstro." What details help develop their character and what do these details tell you about them? What is their background? How do they know each other? How do they interact? In what ways are they similar or different? Explain.
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