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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. To what does the speaker say is the only barricade for the townspeople?
(a) Furniture.
(b) A river.
(c) Deafness.
(d) Faith.

2. What do the signs around town say is the danger of deafness?
(a) It is a sign of cancer.
(b) It is hard to correct.
(c) It is contagious.
(d) It is deadly.

3. In “The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body,” what is happening to the puppet lying near Petya?
(a) It is being protected by Sonya.
(b) It is being trampled by the soldiers.
(c) It is dangling from its strings.
(d) Its mouth is filling with snow.

4. 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?
(a) His pregnant wife.
(b) A soldier.
(c) His child.
(d) A neighbor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to those who are caught unable to hear the soldiers?

2. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” America is described as falling how?

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

4. Alfonso says there is such fire from what?

5. “In Soldiers Aim at Us,” what do the soldiers do to make the townspeople run away, so they can get Petya’s body?

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