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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is significant about that March when the first boy caught the infection in a camp outside of Port-Au-Prince?
(a) It was the darkest in recorded history.
(b) It was the hottest in recorded history.
(c) It was the coldest in recorded history.
(d) It was the longest in recorded history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say all 19-year-olds are when discussing his difficulty being around his sick mother?

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

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

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

5. What is the first thing people blame when the infections began to spread?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Alex tell his friends when he introduced them to the narrator? How did his friends react when the narrator told them what he was hoping to become?

2. How did the narrator react when he first heard of La Negrura? What was he more occupied with at the time?

3. Why was it easy to blame the heat on the outbreak of La Negrura?

4. Who is Alex? How does he know the narrator? In what ways are they different?

5. What are some the strange behaviors the infected displayed months after the initial outbreak?

6. How did people first react to La Negrura, according to the narrator at the start of the story?

7. Why did the narrator's mother initially come back to the Dominican Republic after living in Brooklyn?

8. Is the narrator being honest when he says his mother did not really want him around her when she was sick? Explain.

9. How did the narrator's mother and aunt feel about the situation in Haiti?

10. Why did interest in La Negrura wane fairly soon after the initial infection?

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