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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Search Patrols - In a Time of Peace.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poet say about parenting, based on the actions of Momma Galya?
(a) Parenting is always beautiful.
(b) Parenting is not for the weak.
(c) Parenting costs us a little dignity.
(d) Parenting is not for everyone.

2. Galya compares her body to what, so that God can watch the small child pulling up on a chair and Galya’s neighbors get arrested?
(a) A balcony.
(b) A microscope.
(c) Binoculars.
(d) A window.

3. In “Soldiers Don’t Like Looking Foolish,” whose names are posted on the wall?
(a) The names of those arrested.
(b) The leaders of Vasenka.
(c) The names of all the puppeteers.
(d) The names of those who were murdered.

4. What do the boys do before the attack on the soldier takes place?
(a) They hide.
(b) They dance in the streets.
(c) They cheer for Alfonso.
(d) They cross themselves.

5. Before midday arrests begin to take place, and the speaker says that the people’s hearing has not diminished but what has grown stronger?
(a) Their fear.
(b) Something silent inside of them.
(c) Their ability to hear.
(d) Their faith in the Lord.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Galya’s neighbors do when she shouts?

2. What does Momma Galya want her neighbors to come see, regarding Anushka?

3. 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?

4. How do the soldiers torture Alfonso?

5. In “Alfonso, in the Snow,” Alfonso talks to himself saying he is alive and must do what?

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