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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 many people became infected within the first couple of months?

2. What is significant about that March when the first boy caught the infection in a camp outside of Port-Au-Prince?

3. Where did the narrator meet Alex?

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

5. What was the narrator doing when "the world came to an end" (1)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes the narrator the protagonist of this story? Compare his role in the story to definitions of protagonists.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Write a brief essay analyzing the title "Monstro." Explore the ways in which this title connects to the plot and themes of the story.

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