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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. In “Alfonso Stands Answerable,” how does the narrator describe the people of town on the first day of arrests?
(a) Angry.
(b) Scared.
(c) Brave.
(d) Nervous.

2. In “Galya’s Toast,” what does Galya NOT toast?
(a) Your voice.
(b) The four dimensions of breathing.
(c) The wonders of the mind.
(d) The twenty-six bones of one foot.

3. In “In a Time of Peace,” neighbors do what as a police officer asks to see a man’s driver’s license and then shoots him?
(a) Shout at the police officer.
(b) Run away.
(c) Open their phones.
(d) Hide.

4. What is done to the father of the people whose eyes Momma Galya is covering?
(a) He is forced to pull down his pants to be searched.
(b) He is taunted and ridiculed.
(c) He is hanged right in front of them.
(d) He is beaten with bats and clubs.

5. In “Question,” the speaker asks what a man is and responds how?
(a) The calming presence.
(b) It is the quiet between two bombardments.
(c) The center of a family.
(d) The head of the household.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the soldiers torture Alfonso?

2. How "Soldiers Don't Like Looking Foolish" end?

3. The poet says that when Petya is shot, a sound is not heard by the crowd, but what is noticed?

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

5. What do Sonya and Alfonso teach others in Central Square?

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