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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the townspeople do when soldiers arrive back in the square to take Petya’s body?
(a) They charge the soldiers.
(b) They encircle Sonya, Alfonso, and the Petya with their arms locked together.
(c) They give the soldier's Petya's body.
(d) They run and hide.

3. In “Alfonso Stands Answerable,” how does the narrator describe the people of town on the first day of arrests?
(a) Scared.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Angry.
(d) Brave.

4. Sonya says a man should smell better than what?
(a) A barn.
(b) His country.
(c) A pig sty.
(d) A toilet.

5. What is the purpose of “Dramatis Personae”?
(a) To give incite into the drama of the poems to come.
(b) To introduce the characters in the collection of poems.
(c) To introduce the poet.
(d) To tell about the dramatic personalities in the poet's life.

6. Who does Alfonso say picks breadcrumbs from each citizen’s eyes and watches their legs as they run and fall?
(a) The blue canary of his country.
(b) His neighbors and friends.
(c) The leaders of his country.
(d) The yellow canary of his country.

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

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

9. In “The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body,” what is happening to the puppet lying near Petya?
(a) It is being trampled by the soldiers.
(b) Its mouth is filling with snow.
(c) It is dangling from its strings.
(d) It is being protected by Sonya.

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

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

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

13. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” it has been how many months since America has had a terrible leader?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

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

15. “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 physically remove them from around Petya.
(b) They rush at the townspeople and knock them over.
(c) They shout at them.
(d) They fire their weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alfonso says he does not know much more about Sonya than the freckles on her shoulders. How does this make him feel?

2. How many soldiers shove Sonya across town?

3. For what food can people view a naked Sonya?

4. What do Sonya and Alfonso teach others in Central Square?

5. What does Sonya call Alfonso, playfully, In “While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses"?

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