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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” America is described as falling how?
(a) Invisible house by invisible house.
(b) Hard and fast.
(c) Like snowflakes in a snow storm.
(d) One politician at a time.

7. Alfonso says that you can have sex with anyone, but you cannot do what with just anyone?
(a) Love them.
(b) Sit in water.
(c) Care for them.
(d) Die for them.

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

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

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

11. “In As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face with a Newspaper,” how many people watch as Sonya puts the now-dead Petya’s glasses back on his face?
(a) 4.
(b) 24.
(c) 10.
(d) 14.

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

13. When an army jeep pulls up into Central Square, what does the Seargeant inside tell the crowd to do?
(a) Disperse.
(b) Drop to the ground.
(c) Stop laughing.
(d) Hold still.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sonya had once said that that she would be doing what the day they came to arrest her?

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

3. What does Alfonso drink after Sonya is murdered?

4. In “Checkpoints” where do the soldiers set up hearing testing sites?

5. What does the sign say that is hanging around Sonya’s neck?

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