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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 happened when a doctor from Martinique took an elderly infected woman to an offshore hospital?
(a) She was cured.
(b) She became comatose.
(c) She died within an hour.
(d) She tore off her restraints and began to crawl back to the quarantine zone.

2. What interest do the narrator and Alex share, which he sense was seen as "a serious mental health disorder" (5)?
(a) Art.
(b) History.
(c) Current Events.
(d) Philosophy.

3. What is the first thing people blame when the infections began to spread?
(a) The cold.
(b) The famine.
(c) The president.
(d) The heat.

4. Which community was impacted by the infection?
(a) Haitians.
(b) Americans.
(c) Europeans.
(d) Dominicans.

5. How many people became infected within the first couple of months?
(a) A couple million.
(b) A couple thousand.
(c) A couple hundred.
(d) A couple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term was used to describe the moment when all infected individuals let out a "bizarre shriek" (4)?

2. What did the narrator tell Alex's friends he was hoping to become?

3. What is the name of the girl the narrator was interested in?

4. How did Alex make money?

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

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