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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. Where would Mysty often pick the narrator up to bring him to Alex's?
(a) The gym.
(b) The bus stop.
(c) His mother's.
(d) They library.

2. Where did Alex's mother go every week to shop?
(a) Miami.
(b) Providence.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Manhattan.

3. Where is Dr. Noni DeGraff from?
(a) France.
(b) America.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Canada.

4. What did Alex think a photograph had the potential to do?
(a) Make him rich.
(b) Make someone smile.
(c) Make someone cry.
(d) Change everything.

5. What does Mysty say when the narrator expresses an interest in staying on the Island?
(a) I don't blame you.
(b) Please do!
(c) It's awful here.
(d) I would love that.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of camera does Alex use?

2. When discussing his friendship with Mysty, the narrator says he spoke as if someone had overdosed him with what?

3. What was Henri Casimir doing which concerned his wife?

4. How tall was Alex?

5. Where did Mysty and her mother and stepfather live for 5 years?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alex tell the narrator about Mysty's father? How does the narrator feel about this news?

2. How do Mysty and the narrator's mother react when he suggests he may take a semester off to stay in the D.R.?

3. Where did Mysty dream of moving one day? What did she plan to do there?

4. Why does Alex want to go to Haiti once La Negrura hit?

5. What does the reader learn of Mysty's backstory after he says much of his memory of her was lost after the Fall?

6. Why does Alex not see his parents very often?

7. What does the narrator think about Mysty the first time they meet? Why does Mysty pick on the narrator?

8. What did Alex do when a farmer in Bani found an unexploded bomb on his farm?

9. Why did the narrator think Mysty and Alex may have been more than friends at some point?

10. What part of Alex's past does the narrator attribute to his playing down his wealth while at Brown?

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