1. Who does Alfonso say picks breadcrumbs from each citizen’s eyes and watches their legs as they run and fall?
(a) His neighbors and friends.
(b) The yellow canary of his country.
(c) The blue canary of his country.
(d) The leaders of his country.

2. Alfonso says that you can have sex with anyone, but you cannot do what with just anyone?
(a) Love them.
(b) Sit in water.
(c) Care for them.
(d) Die for them.

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 rush at the townspeople and knock them over.
(c) They shout at them.
(d) They fire their weapons.

4. Alfonso says that a bathtub, infant, and marriage bed are what?
(a) His home.
(b) His loves.
(c) His world.
(d) His country.

5. Before midday arrests begin to take place, and the speaker says that the people’s hearing has not diminished but what has grown stronger?
(a) Something silent inside of them.
(b) Their faith in the Lord.
(c) Their fear.
(d) Their ability to hear.

Short Answer Questions

1. “In As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face with a Newspaper,” how many people watch as Sonya puts the now-dead Petya’s glasses back on his face?

2. How much does Sonya and Alfonso’s daughter weigh at birth?

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

4. 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?

5. Alfonso says there is such fire from what?

(see the answer key)

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