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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What form of currency is used in "Monstro"?
(a) The peso.
(b) The ruble.
(c) The renminbi.
(d) The dollar.

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

4. Why were people not too worried about the infections in the beginning?
(a) It only seemed to affect the very young.
(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 sick.

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

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

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

8. Who does the narrator believe were the only people he knew paying attention to the infections in Haiti at first?
(a) His professors.
(b) His friends.
(c) His mother and aunt.
(d) Himself.

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

10. How did Alex make money?
(a) Modeling.
(b) Photograpy.
(c) Writing.
(d) Teaching.

11. Which country's factories were producing a lot of pharmaceuticals in the Dominican Republic in "Monstro"?
(a) France.
(b) America.
(c) China.
(d) India.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

3. Where did the narrator meet Alex?

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

5. What was the situation with the narrator's mom when the "world came to an end" (1)?

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