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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. How is Petya’s body treated by the soldiers?
(a) It is dragged away with little care or dignity for him.
(b) It is quickly picked up and put in a truck.
(c) It is left for the dogs.
(d) It is carefully put on a gurney and wheeled away.

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

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

4. For whom is Alfonso looking for initially in “4 a.m. Bombardment”?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A man that resembles him.
(c) His child.
(d) A neighbor.

5. Sonya and Alfonso sneak through the city telling everyone to do what?
(a) Hide.
(b) Be courageous.
(c) Run away.
(d) Forge illegal papers.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Sonya shouts, and the townspeople see in her cry and gaping mouth, what does the poet say can be seen?

2. What does Alfonso say about his wife’s words and actions in “Before the War, We Made a Child”?

3. In “Of Weddings before the War,” what does the speaker NOT mention?

4. Alfonso says that in the nursery, quiet hisses like what?

5. In “The Map of Bones and Open Valves,” the townspeople act deaf, so the soldiers begin doing what?

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