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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 strange thing happened to all infected individuals 8 months after the disease began?

2. Where was the narrator's mother living before moving back to the Dominican Republic?

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

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

5. What does the narrator say all 19-year-olds are when discussing his difficulty being around his sick mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about foreshadowing in "Monstro." Define foreshadowing and identify moments of foreshadowing in the story. Discuss how foreshadowing impacted your reading of the story.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about why you think the narrator, Alex, and Mysty are drawn to one another.

Essay Topic 3

Away from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the story. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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