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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 does Alfonso say is left of Sonya, as she is being pushed around by the soldiers?
(a) Her love for her people.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Her silence.
(d) A puppet that speaks only in sign language.

2. What does the sign say that is hanging around Sonya’s neck?
(a) She resisted arrest.
(b) She is deaf.
(c) She is a thief.
(d) She is an enemy of the state.

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

4. The speaker tells God that he can be found, like what beak, pecking everywhere at astonishment?
(a) A pigeon’s.
(b) A cardinal’s.
(c) A dove’s.
(d) A duck’s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Alfonso says that you can have sex with anyone, but you cannot do what with just anyone?

2. What does Sonya call Alfonso, playfully, In “While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses"?

3. What does Alfonso drink after Sonya is murdered?

4. In “Of Weddings before the War,” what does the speaker NOT mention?

5. How does Sonya die?

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