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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 happened when a doctor from Martinique took an elderly infected woman to an offshore hospital?

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

3. How many people became infected within the first couple of months?

4. What is the name of the place the narrator spent much of his time thanks to his friend, Alex?

5. What is the name of the girl the narrator was interested in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the story's themes?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing the imagery used in "Monstro." Indicate examples of imagery in the text and identify possible meanings.

Essay Topic 3

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

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