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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 6 - 10 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When discussing his friendship with Mysty, the narrator says he spoke as if someone had overdosed him with what?
(a) Truth serum.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Amphetamines.
(d) Sleeping pills.

4. What was Henri Casimir doing which concerned his wife?
(a) Roaming around and muttering to himself.
(b) Starving himself.
(c) Trying to kill himself.
(d) Trying to kill her.

5. Where did Mysty and her mother and stepfather live for 5 years?
(a) Paris.
(b) Miami.
(c) New York.
(d) Quebec.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the narrator doing when "the world came to an end" (1)?

3. Why does Alex say the narrator would not last long on the Island?

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

5. What strange behavior among infected individuals did doctors note several months after it began?

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