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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. How do the townspeople in “Alfonso Stands Answerable” respond to the police?
(a) With peaceful marches.
(b) With deafness.
(c) With stealing and rioting.
(d) With violent protests.

2. 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?
(a) "Gunshot."
(b) "Alfonso, in the Snow."
(c) "Deafness, an Insurgency Begins."
(d) "Soldiers Aim at Us."

3. “In Soldiers Aim at Us,” what do the soldiers do to make the townspeople run away, so they can get Petya’s body?
(a) They physically remove them from around Petya.
(b) They shout at them.
(c) They fire their weapons.
(d) They rush at the townspeople and knock them over.

4. Alfonso says that in the nursery, quiet hisses like what?
(a) A match dropped in water.
(b) A gas leak.
(c) The steam from a radiator.
(d) A snake in a river.

5. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” it has been how many months since America has had a terrible leader?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alfonso says that who have something to tell that not even they can hear?

2. 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?

3. Sonya had once said that that she would be doing what the day they came to arrest her?

4. How does Sonya die?

5. Sonya says a man should smell better than what?

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