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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 the boys do before the attack on the soldier takes place?
(a) They dance in the streets.
(b) They hide.
(c) They cross themselves.
(d) They cheer for Alfonso.

2. In “The Townspeople Watch Them Take Alfonso,” the speaker says the townspeople watch as how many soldiers toss Alfonso on the sidewalk?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

3. When Alfonso talks to himself, for what does he long?
(a) His wife’s voice.
(b) Silence.
(c) Sedation.
(d) A new life.

4. 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?
(a) "Alfonso, in the Snow."
(b) "Gunshot."
(c) "Soldiers Aim at Us."
(d) "Deafness, an Insurgency Begins."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “What We Cannot Hear,” Sonya is forced into an army jeep one morning in what month?

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

3. What does Alfonso say about his wife’s words and actions in “Before the War, We Made a Child”?

4. What does Sonya do in “As Soldiers Choke the Stairwell”?

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

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