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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. When the Sergeant calls to Petya, what does Petya do?
(a) He shouts at the Sergeant.
(b) He stops giggling and grows silent.
(c) He spits in his face.
(d) He tries to hide.

2. Sonya stands and holds up a sign that someone has given her. What does the sign say?
(a) The people are deaf.
(b) We will not give in.
(c) For Petya.
(d) Do not tread on me.

3. In “Checkpoints” where do the soldiers set up hearing testing sites?
(a) In a few poor neighborhoods.
(b) All over town.
(c) In the shopping district.
(d) In Central Square.

4. To whom does Alfonso thank for the deafness of the townspeople?
(a) The soldiers.
(b) The townspeople.
(c) The Lord.
(d) His wife.

5. What do the townspeople do when soldiers arrive back in the square to take Petya’s body?
(a) They encircle Sonya, Alfonso, and the Petya with their arms locked together.
(b) They give the soldier's Petya's body.
(c) They run and hide.
(d) They charge the soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many soldiers shove Sonya across town?

2. In “What We Cannot Hear,” Sonya is forced into an army jeep one morning in what month?

3. In “A Cigarette,” the speaker tells the reader to watch and see how the townspeople of Vasenka do not realize that they are proof of what?

4. How does “A Dog Sniffs” begin?

5. What does Sonya do in “As Soldiers Choke the Stairwell”?

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