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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 - 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Alex make money?
(a) Modeling.
(b) Photograpy.
(c) Writing.
(d) Teaching.

2. Where did the narrator meet Alex?
(a) Yale.
(b) Brown.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

3. Who picks the narrator up from the airport when he first arrives in the Dominican for the summer?
(a) Alex.
(b) His mother.
(c) Mysty.
(d) His aunt.

4. Why were people not too worried about the infections in the beginning?
(a) It only seemed to affect the very sick.
(b) It only seemed to affect the very young.
(c) It only seemed to affect the very rich.
(d) It only seemed to affect the very old.

5. What invented word does Diaz include to refer to text messages?
(a) Plypts.
(b) Glypts.
(c) Pleps.
(d) Whorls.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which community was impacted by the infection?

3. How does Diaz describe the way in which the infection spread?

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)?

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