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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through I, This Body - Such is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sonya says a man should smell better than what?
(a) A toilet.
(b) A barn.
(c) His country.
(d) A pig sty.

2. The speaker says that Alfonso played the accordion out of tune where the only musical instrument of his country is what?
(a) The harp.
(b) The balalaika.
(c) The door.
(d) The accordion.

3. In “I, This Body,” begins with Alfonso being held up at Sonya’s funeral only by what?
(a) Mama Galya.
(b) A cane.
(c) His neighbors.
(d) The hand of God.

4. How does the audience respond when the sergeant puppet reacts to Petya’s sneeze?
(a) They become nervous.
(b) They freeze.
(c) They laugh.
(d) They begin to shout angrily.

5. What Alfonso cannot believe about his door-slamming wife?
(a) She is gone.
(b) She allowed them to kill her.
(c) She is in hiding somewhere.
(d) She betrayed him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Checkpoints” where do the soldiers set up hearing testing sites?

2. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” America is described as falling how?

3. What of Sonya’s does Alfonso put on after her death?

4. In “In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky,” Alfonso asks if he is seeing what?

5. How do the townspeople in “Alfonso Stands Answerable” respond to the police?

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