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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. The section ends with Alfonso saying that a man cannot flick off the sky. Why?
(a) It is not right to act this way.
(b) Every person on the earth is already a finger flipped at the sky.
(c) There are too many more important things to do.
(d) It is too dangerous to do this.

2. For what food can people view a naked Sonya?
(a) An apple.
(b) Meat.
(c) A loaf of bread.
(d) Alcohol.

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

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

5. What does Sonya do in “As Soldiers Choke the Stairwell”?
(a) She sings.
(b) She scratches the skin off her legs.
(c) She learns more sign language.
(d) She plays the piano.

Short Answer Questions

1. “Gunshot” begins by comparing the country to what?

2. When Alfonso and Sonya are on the bridge, what does he notice about the helicopter overhead?

3. 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?

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

5. Why does Alfonso say he is answerable in “Alfonso Stands Answerable”?

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