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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. How many soldiers shove Sonya across town?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

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

3. In “A Cigarette,” the speaker tells the reader to watch and see how the townspeople of Vasenka do not realize that they are proof of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Hope.
(d) Loss.

4. What do the townspeople do when soldiers arrive back in the square to take Petya’s body?
(a) They run and hide.
(b) They encircle Sonya, Alfonso, and the Petya with their arms locked together.
(c) They give the soldier's Petya's body.
(d) They charge the soldiers.

5. When the speaker asks God why he allowed such an act, what is God’s response?
(a) Every man has free will.
(b) He did not allow it.
(c) Everyone chooses one's own fate.
(d) An echo of the question.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Alfonso put to death?

2. When Alfonso talks to himself, for what does he long?

3. The section ends with Alfonso saying that a man cannot flick off the sky. Why?

4. In “In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky,” why does Alfonso sometimes light a lamp?

5. In “The Townspeople Watch Them Take Alfonso,” the speaker says the townspeople watch as how many soldiers toss Alfonso on the sidewalk?

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