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

2. For whom is Alfonso looking for initially in “4 a.m. Bombardment”?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A man that resembles him.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) His child.

3. How does Sonya die?
(a) By firing squad.
(b) By suicide.
(c) By hanging.
(d) By lethal injection.

4. 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 is trying to fire at them.
(c) It looks like it might crash.
(d) It does not see them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What do the townspeople do when soldiers arrive back in the square to take Petya’s body?

3. Alfonso says there is such fire from what?

4. What is the purpose of “Dramatis Personae”?

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

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