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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through We Lived Happily During the War - Soldiers Aim at Us.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Alfonso Stands Answerable,” to whom is he answerable?
(a) The soldiers.
(b) His town.
(c) Life.
(d) His wife.

2. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” an unknown speaker says that when homes are bombed, what happens?
(a) People fight for their freedom.
(b) People will do anything to survive.
(c) People protest, but it is too little too late.
(d) People run for cover.

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

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

5. When Alfonso and Sonya are on the bridge, what does he notice about the helicopter overhead?
(a) It puts a spotlight on Sonya.
(b) It does not see them.
(c) It is trying to fire at them.
(d) It looks like it might crash.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Alfonso Stands Answerable,” how does the narrator describe the people of town on the first day of arrests?

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

3. As Petya’s body lies on the asphalt, what does Alfonso wonder?

4. In what poem does the country wake up the next day and, in the name of Petya, refuse to hear the soldiers in the streets?

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

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