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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. In “Question,” what is the response when the speaker asks the question, “What is a child”?
(a) The quiet found between two bombardments.
(b) Our only hope.
(c) The physical love of two people.
(d) The future of the whole world.

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

3. The poet says that when Petya is shot, a sound is not heard by the crowd, but what is noticed?
(a) The look of revenge on the Sergeant's face.
(b) It begins to rain.
(c) The soldiers disperse.
(d) The sound sends the birds up into the air.

4. Alfonso says he does not know much more about Sonya than the freckles on her shoulders. How does this make him feel?
(a) It reminds him that they are newlyweds.
(b) It worries him.
(c) It thrills him but also makes him feel alone.
(d) It makes him want to get to know her on a deeper level.

5. As Petya’s body lies on the asphalt, what does Alfonso wonder?
(a) Why people kill other people.
(b) Why Petya had to spit in the Sergeant's face.
(c) Why his town is being taken over.
(d) Why he, Alfonso, is alive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The speaker tells God that he can be found, like what beak, pecking everywhere at astonishment?

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

4. What does Alfonso say is left of Sonya, as she is being pushed around by the soldiers?

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

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