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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 did Mysty and her mother and stepfather live for 5 years?
(a) Miami.
(b) New York.
(c) Quebec.
(d) Paris.

2. Why did Alex want to go to Haiti?
(a) To photograph the infected.
(b) To find his father.
(c) To donate money to local hospitals.
(d) To try to help the infected.

3. Why does Alex say the narrator would not last long on the Island?
(a) He is too gringo.
(b) He is too restless.
(c) He is too poor.
(d) He is too lazy.

4. With whom did Alex seem to spend most of this time?
(a) Valentina.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) Mysty.

5. How tall was Alex?
(a) 4'11.
(b) 5'5.
(c) 6'8.
(d) 8'9.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Alex's girlfriend?

2. What was Alex's GPA at school?

3. What did Mysty say she was more interested in having than a boyfriend?

4. What subject was Mysty studying at Unibe?

5. What did Alex think a photograph had the potential to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. Unlike Alex, who wanted to change everyone with his art, what was the narrator's ambition?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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