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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who picks the narrator up from the airport when he first arrives in the Dominican for the summer?
(a) Mysty.
(b) Alex.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His mother.

4. What word is used for the internet in "Monstro"?
(a) El monstro.
(b) Webbie.
(c) Interwhirld.
(d) Whorl.

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

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

7. 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.

8. What is the name of the girl the narrator was interested in?
(a) Mandy.
(b) Mitsy.
(c) Megsy.
(d) Mysty.

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

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

11. How old was the first person to have caught the infection?
(a) 64.
(b) 32.
(c) 4.
(d) 16.

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

13. What is the name of the place the narrator spent much of his time thanks to his friend, Alex?
(a) The Dome.
(b) The Cloud.
(c) The Room.
(d) The Shield.

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

15. What does the narrator say all 19-year-olds are when discussing his difficulty being around his sick mother?
(a) Losers.
(b) Squeemish.
(c) Shallow.
(d) Loyal.

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. Where did the narrator meet Alex?

3. What was the other name for La Negrura?

4. Which country's factories were producing a lot of pharmaceuticals in the Dominican Republic in "Monstro"?

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

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