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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. What are the philosophical words mentioned in “Eulogy”?
(a) To live is to love.
(b) We must always have hope.
(c) To love is to live.
(d) We must speak not only of great devastation.

2. In “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” what does Alfonso do?
(a) He runs quickly away.
(b) He sings at the top of his lungs.
(c) He dances in the street.
(d) He stumbles away from the dead body.

3. When Alfonso talks to himself, for what does he long?
(a) A new life.
(b) Silence.
(c) His wife’s voice.
(d) Sedation.

4. As Sonya shouts, and the townspeople see in her cry and gaping mouth, what does the poet say can be seen?
(a) The evil that has arrived to their town.
(b) Sonya's pain and anguish.
(c) The nakedness of the whole nation.
(d) Her throat.

5. In “The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body,” what is happening to the puppet lying near Petya?
(a) Its mouth is filling with snow.
(b) It is being trampled by the soldiers.
(c) It is being protected by Sonya.
(d) It is dangling from its strings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sonya do in “As Soldiers Choke the Stairwell”?

2. What does Alfonso say is left of Sonya, as she is being pushed around by the soldiers?

3. What do girls and boys do to the soldier?

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

5. How does Sonya die?

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