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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. 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.

2. What do the townspeople do when soldiers arrive back in the square to take Petya’s body?
(a) They encircle Sonya, Alfonso, and the Petya with their arms locked together.
(b) They run and hide.
(c) They charge the soldiers.
(d) They give the soldier's Petya's body.

3. When the Sergeant calls to Petya, what does Petya do?
(a) He spits in his face.
(b) He tries to hide.
(c) He stops giggling and grows silent.
(d) He shouts at the Sergeant.

4. In “Still Newlyweds,” Alfonso says that when Sonya steps out of the shower, it does what?
(a) Gives him another reason why he married her.
(b) Reminds him that there is a God.
(c) It overwhelms him.
(d) Calms the entire nation.

5. Sonya says a man should smell better than what?
(a) A barn.
(b) His country.
(c) A pig sty.
(d) A toilet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” how does the speaker refer to America?

2. How do the townspeople in “Alfonso Stands Answerable” respond to the police?

3. In “Question,” what is the response when the speaker asks the question, “What is a child”?

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

5. In “The Map of Bones and Open Valves,” the townspeople act deaf, so the soldiers begin doing what?

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