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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. How old was the first person to have caught the infection?
2. What strange behavior among infected individuals did doctors note several months after it began?
3. How many people became infected within the first couple of months?
4. What was the other name for La Negrura?
5. What is the name of the girl the narrator was interested in?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Who is Alex? How does he know the narrator? In what ways are they different?
3. Why was it easy to blame the heat on the outbreak of La Negrura?
4. How did the narrator react when he first heard of La Negrura? What was he more occupied with at the time?
5. What are some the strange behaviors the infected displayed months after the initial outbreak?
6. Is the narrator being honest when he says his mother did not really want him around her when she was sick? Explain.
7. How did people first react to La Negrura, according to the narrator at the start of the story?
8. How did the narrator's mother and aunt feel about the situation in Haiti?
9. Why did the narrator's mother initially come back to the Dominican Republic after living in Brooklyn?
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
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 analyzing Diaz's language style and word choice in "Monstro." What are some words that stand out to you and why? What words are repeated? What words are most impactful? Explain your answers.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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