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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. Who does Alfonso say picks breadcrumbs from each citizen’s eyes and watches their legs as they run and fall?
(a) The blue canary of his country.
(b) His neighbors and friends.
(c) The leaders of his country.
(d) The yellow canary of his country.

2. In “Elegy,” how many words does Alfonso pray?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

3. What does Alfonso say about his wife’s words and actions in “Before the War, We Made a Child”?
(a) They are the words of a young bride.
(b) They kind and gentle.
(c) They are all requests for him to join her in bed.
(d) They are sweet and innocent.

4. What does Momma Galya say deafness really is?
(a) A joke.
(b) A disease.
(c) A sexual position.
(d) A falsity.

5. In “The Trial,” Galya holds Anushka how?
(a) As if she is holding a broken arm.
(b) As if she is holding a wild animal.
(c) On her back.
(d) In a carrier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is something Alfonso does NOT say protects his daughter, in “Lullaby”?

2. In “Central Square,” those who are arrested are forced to walk how?

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?

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

5. When Galya asks Anushka how we live on earth, how does Galya respond for Anushka?

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