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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 situation with the narrator's mom when the "world came to an end" (1)?
(a) She was helping sick people.
(b) She was sick.
(c) She was missing.
(d) She was busy working.

2. What strange thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?
(a) They stopped sleeping.
(b) They stopped speaking.
(c) They went blind.
(d) They could not stop eating.

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

4. What did the narrator tell Alex's friends he was hoping to become?
(a) A photographer.
(b) A journalist.
(c) A model.
(d) A doctor.

5. What strange behavior among infected individuals did doctors note several months after it began?
(a) They walked around huddled under blankets because they were always freezing.
(b) They stopped opening their eyes.
(c) They wanted to be near each other all the time.
(d) They began eating their own limbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Alex make money?

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

3. Who picks the narrator up from the airport when he first arrives in the Dominican for the summer?

4. What happened when a doctor from Martinique took an elderly infected woman to an offshore hospital?

5. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

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