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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 thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?
2. How does Diaz describe the way in which the infection spread?
3. What happened to the worst cases of infections after about 6 months?
4. What did the narrator tell Alex's friends he was hoping to become?
5. What was the narrator doing when "the world came to an end" (1)?
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. 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?
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. Why did the narrator's mother initially come back to the Dominican Republic after living in Brooklyn?
7. Why did interest in La Negrura wane fairly soon after the initial infection?
8. Who is Alex? How does he know the narrator? In what ways are they different?
9. How did the narrator react when he first heard of La Negrura? What was he more occupied with at the time?
10. How did people first react to La Negrura, according to the narrator at the start of the story?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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.
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