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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For whom is Alfonso looking for initially in “4 a.m. Bombardment”?
(a) A soldier.
(b) His child.
(c) A man that resembles him.
(d) A neighbor.

2. In “Alfonso, in the Snow,” Alfonso talks to himself saying he is alive and must do what?
(a) Listen.
(b) Hide.
(c) Run.
(d) Hurry.

3. Alfonso says that a bathtub, infant, and marriage bed are what?
(a) His loves.
(b) His home.
(c) His country.
(d) His world.

4. To what does the speaker say is the only barricade for the townspeople?
(a) Faith.
(b) A river.
(c) Furniture.
(d) Deafness.

5. “Gunshot” begins by comparing the country to what?
(a) The barrel of a gun.
(b) A bullet.
(c) A stage.
(d) A shooting.

6. Alfonso says that Sonya’s voice, although it cannot be heard, is what?
(a) The strongest voice.
(b) The clearest voice.
(c) The loudest voice.
(d) The smartest voice.

7. The section ends with Alfonso saying that a man cannot flick off the sky. Why?
(a) It is not right to act this way.
(b) There are too many more important things to do.
(c) Every person on the earth is already a finger flipped at the sky.
(d) It is too dangerous to do this.

8. 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 kind and gentle.
(c) They are the words of a young bride.
(d) They are sweet and innocent.

9. “In Soldiers Aim at Us,” what do the soldiers do to make the townspeople run away, so they can get Petya’s body?
(a) They fire their weapons.
(b) They physically remove them from around Petya.
(c) They shout at them.
(d) They rush at the townspeople and knock them over.

10. What does the sign say that is hanging around Sonya’s neck?
(a) She resisted arrest.
(b) She is deaf.
(c) She is a thief.
(d) She is an enemy of the state.

11. 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) Something silent inside of them.
(b) Their ability to hear.
(c) Their fear.
(d) Their faith in the Lord.

12. What do the signs around town say is the danger of deafness?
(a) It is deadly.
(b) It is contagious.
(c) It is hard to correct.
(d) It is a sign of cancer.

13. Alfonso says he does not know much more about Sonya than the freckles on her shoulders. How does this make him feel?
(a) It makes him want to get to know her on a deeper level.
(b) It reminds him that they are newlyweds.
(c) It worries him.
(d) It thrills him but also makes him feel alone.

14. In “Central Square,” those who are arrested are forced to walk how?
(a) With their feet chained together.
(b) Backward.
(c) With their arms up.
(d) Chained together.

15. The speaker tells God that he can be found, like what beak, pecking everywhere at astonishment?
(a) A cardinal’s.
(b) A duck’s.
(c) A dove’s.
(d) A pigeon’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” an unknown speaker says that when homes are bombed, what happens?

2. In “Of Weddings before the War,” what does the speaker NOT mention?

3. In “A Cigarette,” the speaker tells the reader to watch and see how the townspeople of Vasenka do not realize that they are proof of what?

4. How is Petya’s body treated by the soldiers?

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

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