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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people became infected within the first couple of months?

2. What is significant about that March when the first boy caught the infection in a camp outside of Port-Au-Prince?

3. Who picks the narrator up from the airport when he first arrives in the Dominican for the summer?

4. What rumors began to spread about infected people?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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