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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the place the narrator spent much of his time thanks to his friend, Alex?

2. Which country's factories were producing a lot of pharmaceuticals in the Dominican Republic in "Monstro"?

3. What term was used to describe the moment when all infected individuals let out a "bizarre shriek" (4)?

4. How did Alex make money?

5. What interest do the narrator and Alex share, which he sense was seen as "a serious mental health disorder" (5)?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes the narrator the protagonist of this story? Compare his role in the story to definitions of protagonists.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay comparing and contrasting the narrator and Alex in "Monstro." What details help develop their character and what do these details tell you about them? What is their background? How do they know each other? How do they interact? In what ways are they similar or different? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the use of dialogue vs the use of description. Look at how each is used in the story and what makes these uses effective or ineffective.

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