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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 was Alex's GPA at school?

2. What does the narrator say was Mysty's "protective screen" (9)?

3. What did Alex think a photograph had the potential to do?

4. When discussing his friendship with Mysty, the narrator says he spoke as if someone had overdosed him with what?

5. What did Mysty say she was more interested in having than a boyfriend?

Short Essay Questions

1. What part of Alex's past does the narrator attribute to his playing down his wealth while at Brown?

2. What does the reader learn of Mysty's backstory after he says much of his memory of her was lost after the Fall?

3. Why did the narrator think Mysty and Alex may have been more than friends at some point?

4. Why does Alex not see his parents very often?

5. Unlike Alex, who wanted to change everyone with his art, what was the narrator's ambition?

6. What does Alex tell the narrator about Mysty's father? How does the narrator feel about this news?

7. What does the narrator think about Mysty the first time they meet? Why does Mysty pick on the narrator?

8. What did Alex do when a farmer in Bani found an unexploded bomb on his farm?

9. Where did Mysty dream of moving one day? What did she plan to do there?

10. How do Mysty and the narrator's mother react when he suggests he may take a semester off to stay in the D.R.?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Read an online review of "Monstro." Write an essay about how this review impacted your own views or understanding of the story.

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