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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 rich.
(c) It only seemed to affect the very old.
(d) It only seemed to affect the very young.

2. What term was used to describe the moment when all infected individuals let out a "bizarre shriek" (4)?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) The Plep.
(c) The Utterance.
(d) The Shriek.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the narrator's mother living before moving back to the Dominican Republic?

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

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

4. How old was the first person to have caught the infection?

5. Who does the narrator believe were the only people he knew paying attention to the infections in Haiti at first?

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