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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 did the narrator begin to consider doing in order to stay on the Island an try to get close to Mysty?

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

3. What would Mysty rather die than admit to having according to the narrator?

4. Where did Mysty want to move once she graduated?

5. What does Alex say is "the most beautiful country in the world" (10)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Alex want to go to Haiti once La Negrura hit?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Superstition plays a role in "Monstro" when people try to find reason for the infections. Write an essay exploring the role of superstition in the story.

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

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.

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