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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. What type of camera does Alex use?
(a) A Nikon.
(b) A Panasonic.
(c) A Pentax.
(d) A Polaroid.

2. What does the narrator say was "like a national pastime" (9) in the Dominican Republic?
(a) Football.
(b) Eating.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Incest.

3. What was Alex's GPA at school?
(a) 1.4.
(b) 3.0.
(c) 4.0.
(d) 2.5.

4. What are some things Mysty picked on the narrator for when they first met?
(a) He could not dance and he did not drink.
(b) He was poor and his clothes were outdated.
(c) He could not handle his liquor and he didn't smoke.
(d) He was too American and his Spanish was lousy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Dr. Noni DeGraff from?

2. What did the narrator realize about Alex after spending time with him on the Island?

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

4. Despite his good qualities, to whom was Alex often rude?

5. How tall was Alex?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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 want to go to Haiti once La Negrura hit?

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

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

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

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

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