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

2. Sonya had once said that that she would be doing what the day they came to arrest her?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Singing.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Playing the piano.

3. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” an unknown speaker says that when homes are bombed, what happens?
(a) People will do anything to survive.
(b) People protest, but it is too little too late.
(c) People fight for their freedom.
(d) People run for cover.

4. As Petya’s body lies on the asphalt, what does Alfonso wonder?
(a) Why he, Alfonso, is alive.
(b) Why people kill other people.
(c) Why Petya had to spit in the Sergeant's face.
(d) Why his town is being taken over.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Sergeant calls to Petya, what does Petya do?

2. When an army jeep pulls up into Central Square, what does the Seargeant inside tell the crowd to do?

3. As Sonya shouts, and the townspeople see in her cry and gaping mouth, what does the poet say can be seen?

4. Alfonso says that a bathtub, infant, and marriage bed are what?

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

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