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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 does Alfonso drink after Sonya is murdered?
(a) Wine.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Beer.
(d) Poison.

2. In “I, This Body,” begins with Alfonso being held up at Sonya’s funeral only by what?
(a) His neighbors.
(b) Mama Galya.
(c) A cane.
(d) The hand of God.

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

4. What does Sonya do in “As Soldiers Choke the Stairwell”?
(a) She scratches the skin off her legs.
(b) She sings.
(c) She learns more sign language.
(d) She plays the piano.

5. What do the girls steal during all the commotion?
(a) Vodka.
(b) The milk.
(c) The box of oranges.
(d) The rubles.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Alfonso talks to himself, for what does he long?

2. “In Soldiers Aim at Us,” what do the soldiers do to make the townspeople run away, so they can get Petya’s body?

3. Sonya had once said that that she would be doing what the day they came to arrest her?

4. What do the townspeople do in “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck” in response to the killing of the soldier?

5. “Gunshot” begins by comparing the country to what?

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