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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 is Anushka wrapped up in at her mother’s funeral?
(a) Her mother's shawl.
(b) A pink blanket.
(c) Burlap.
(d) A green handkerchief.

2. In this bombed city one person takes a cigarette while another gives what to a dog?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) Treats.
(c) Table scraps.
(d) A pint of beer.

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

4. Sonya and Alfonso sneak through the city telling everyone to do what?
(a) Run away.
(b) Be courageous.
(c) Forge illegal papers.
(d) Hide.

5. In “Elegy,” how many words does Alfonso pray?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many soldiers shove Sonya across town?

3. How do the young men of Vasenka want to take revenge on the men who killed Sonya?

4. Who does Alfonso say picks breadcrumbs from each citizen’s eyes and watches their legs as they run and fall?

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

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