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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Checkpoints - For His Wife.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In “What We Cannot Hear,” Sonya is forced into an army jeep one morning in what month?
(a) April.
(b) May.
(c) July.
(d) June.

3. What does Sonya do in “As Soldiers Choke the Stairwell”?
(a) She plays the piano.
(b) She learns more sign language.
(c) She sings.
(d) She scratches the skin off her legs.

4. In “The Map of Bones and Open Valves,” the townspeople act deaf, so the soldiers begin doing what?
(a) Ignoring them.
(b) Learning sign language.
(c) Examining everyone’s ears.
(d) Teaching the people sign language.

5. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” America is described as falling how?
(a) Invisible house by invisible house.
(b) Hard and fast.
(c) Like snowflakes in a snow storm.
(d) One politician at a time.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many soldiers shove Sonya across town?

2. To what does the speaker say is the only barricade for the townspeople?

3. When the Sergeant calls to Petya, what does Petya do?

4. What do the signs around town say is the danger of deafness?

5. As the morning begins and the town comes to life, soldiers stand about looking for those who are deaf, and Alfonso is desperately looking for whom?

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