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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sonya die?
(a) By hanging.
(b) By lethal injection.
(c) By suicide.
(d) By firing squad.

2. In “Lullaby,” what does Alfonso call his baby?
(a) Little baby.
(b) Little earth.
(c) Little angel.
(d) Little one.

3. What happens if townspeople show signs of deafness?
(a) They are ignored.
(b) They are sent for surgery.
(c) They are to turn themselves in.
(d) They are told to go home and quaratine.

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

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

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

7. Why does Alfonso say he is answerable in “Alfonso Stands Answerable”?
(a) He shoots an officer.
(b) He hides behind his wife.
(c) He runs away down the street.
(d) He threatens his neighbors.

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

9. Alfonso says that in the nursery, quiet hisses like what?
(a) A match dropped in water.
(b) The steam from a radiator.
(c) A gas leak.
(d) A snake in a river.

10. To whom does Alfonso thank for the deafness of the townspeople?
(a) The soldiers.
(b) The townspeople.
(c) The Lord.
(d) His wife.

11. How does the audience respond when the sergeant puppet reacts to Petya’s sneeze?
(a) They laugh.
(b) They become nervous.
(c) They begin to shout angrily.
(d) They freeze.

12. What do Sonya and Alfonso teach others in Central Square?
(a) Puppetry.
(b) Russian.
(c) Dance.
(d) Sign language.

13. Alfonso says that who have something to tell that not even they can hear?
(a) Children.
(b) Ordinary people.
(c) The deaf.
(d) The soldiers.

14. The poet says that when Petya is shot, a sound is not heard by the crowd, but what is noticed?
(a) It begins to rain.
(b) The soldiers disperse.
(c) The look of revenge on the Sergeant's face.
(d) The sound sends the birds up into the air.

15. What is Alfonso doing when Sonya is taken by force in a jeep?
(a) Rocking Anushka.
(b) Hiding in the closet with Anushka.
(c) Begging for her to be released.
(d) Out looking for bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of “Dramatis Personae”?

2. How does “A Dog Sniffs” begin?

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

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

5. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” how does the speaker refer to America?

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