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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. How do the townspeople in “Alfonso Stands Answerable” respond to the police?
(a) With deafness.
(b) With peaceful marches.
(c) With stealing and rioting.
(d) With violent protests.

2. When an army jeep pulls up into Central Square, what does the Seargeant inside tell the crowd to do?
(a) Hold still.
(b) Disperse.
(c) Stop laughing.
(d) Drop to the ground.

3. What is something Alfonso does NOT say protects his daughter, in “Lullaby”?
(a) Branches.
(b) Walls.
(c) The army.
(d) Rainwater.

4. Before midday arrests begin to take place, and the speaker says that the people’s hearing has not diminished but what has grown stronger?
(a) Their fear.
(b) Something silent inside of them.
(c) Their ability to hear.
(d) Their faith in the Lord.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” it has been how many months since America has had a terrible leader?

2. What happens if townspeople show signs of deafness?

3. What do the girls steal during all the commotion?

4. In “In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky,” Alfonso asks if he is seeing what?

5. In what poem does the country wake up the next day and, in the name of Petya, refuse to hear the soldiers in the streets?

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