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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the other name for La Negrura?
(a) The Sunburn.
(b) The Sickness.
(c) The Plague.
(d) The Darkness.

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

3. What happened to the worst cases of infections after about 6 months?
(a) They went deaf.
(b) They died.
(c) They became comatose.
(d) They went blind.

4. Who does the narrator believe were the only people he knew paying attention to the infections in Haiti at first?
(a) His friends.
(b) Himself.
(c) His mother and aunt.
(d) His professors.

5. Where was the narrator's mother living before moving back to the Dominican Republic?
(a) Boston.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Providence.
(d) Brooklyn.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first thing people blame when the infections began to spread?

3. Which community was impacted by the infection?

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

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

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