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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sonya had once said that that she would be doing what the day they came to arrest her?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Singing.

2. How many soldiers shove Sonya across town?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

3. What does Sonya call Alfonso, playfully, In “While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses"?
(a) Stranger.
(b) Lover.
(c) Pig.
(d) Young man.

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

5. As Sonya shouts, and the townspeople see in her cry and gaping mouth, what does the poet say can be seen?
(a) The evil that has arrived to their town.
(b) The nakedness of the whole nation.
(c) Sonya's pain and anguish.
(d) Her throat.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. When the puppet mimics the demand of the military personnel, all freeze but Petya. What does he do?
(a) He becomes angry.
(b) He continues to giggle.
(c) He continues to tell the story with his puppet.
(d) He cries.

14. When Alfonso and Sonya are on the bridge, what does he notice about the helicopter overhead?
(a) It is trying to fire at them.
(b) It does not see them.
(c) It looks like it might crash.
(d) It puts a spotlight on Sonya.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. The section ends with Alfonso saying that a man cannot flick off the sky. Why?

5. In “Lullaby,” what does Alfonso call his baby?

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