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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through I, This Body - Such is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do girls and boys do to the soldier?
(a) They hit him.
(b) They dance with him.
(c) They spit at him.
(d) They spray water on him.

2. What do Sonya and Alfonso teach others in Central Square?
(a) Dance.
(b) Russian.
(c) Sign language.
(d) Puppetry.

3. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” America is described as falling how?
(a) Hard and fast.
(b) One politician at a time.
(c) Like snowflakes in a snow storm.
(d) Invisible house by invisible house.

4. When the speaker asks God why he allowed such an act, what is God’s response?
(a) Every man has free will.
(b) Everyone chooses one's own fate.
(c) An echo of the question.
(d) He did not allow it.

5. No one stands up for Alfonso. What do they say?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Our silence stands up for us.
(c) We can barely stand up for ourselves.
(d) We are afraid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alfonso say he is answerable in “Alfonso Stands Answerable”?

2. As Petya’s body lies on the asphalt, what does Alfonso wonder?

3. What does Alfonso say is left of Sonya, as she is being pushed around by the soldiers?

4. In this bombed city one person takes a cigarette while another gives what to a dog?

5. Alfonso says that Sonya’s voice, although it cannot be heard, is what?

(see the answer key)

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