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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. In this bombed city one person takes a cigarette while another gives what to a dog?
(a) Treats.
(b) Table scraps.
(c) A cigarette.
(d) A pint of beer.

2. What does Alfonso say about his wife’s words and actions in “Before the War, We Made a Child”?
(a) They are the words of a young bride.
(b) They kind and gentle.
(c) They are all requests for him to join her in bed.
(d) They are sweet and innocent.

3. How do the soldiers torture Alfonso?
(a) They put him in the stocks.
(b) They bind his hands together.
(c) With a fire hose.
(d) They hang a sign around his neck and parade him naked through the streets.

4. In “Question,” the speaker asks what a man is and responds how?
(a) It is the quiet between two bombardments.
(b) The head of the household.
(c) The calming presence.
(d) The center of a family.

5. What does Alfonso drink after Sonya is murdered?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Poison.
(c) Beer.
(d) Wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the boys do before the attack on the soldier takes place?

2. What is Anushka wrapped up in at her mother’s funeral?

3. Alfonso says that a bathtub, infant, and marriage bed are what?

4. Alfonso says that who have something to tell that not even they can hear?

5. For whom is Alfonso looking for initially in “4 a.m. Bombardment”?

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