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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 “The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body,” what is happening to the puppet lying near Petya?
(a) It is being trampled by the soldiers.
(b) Its mouth is filling with snow.
(c) It is dangling from its strings.
(d) It is being protected by Sonya.

2. What happens to those who are caught unable to hear the soldiers?
(a) They are beaten.
(b) They are hauled away in trucks.
(c) They are put in stocks.
(d) They are shot on the spot.

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

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

5. As Sonya shouts, and the townspeople see in her cry and gaping mouth, what does the poet say can be seen?
(a) The nakedness of the whole nation.
(b) The evil that has arrived to their town.
(c) Her throat.
(d) Sonya's pain and anguish.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Checkpoints” where do the soldiers set up hearing testing sites?

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

3. What is Alfonso doing when Sonya is taken by force in a jeep?

4. The poet says that when Petya is shot, a sound is not heard by the crowd, but what is noticed?

5. Sonya stands and holds up a sign that someone has given her. What does the sign say?

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