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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does “A Dog Sniffs” begin?
(a) The baby is crying.
(b) Sonya is sleeping.
(c) Sonya is out looking for bread.
(d) Sonya is nursing their baby, Anushka.

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

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

4. As the morning begins and the town comes to life, soldiers stand about looking for those who are deaf, and Alfonso is desperately looking for whom?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) His pregnant wife.
(c) His child.
(d) A soldier.

5. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” an unknown speaker says that when homes are bombed, what happens?
(a) People will do anything to survive.
(b) People protest, but it is too little too late.
(c) People fight for their freedom.
(d) People run for cover.

6. 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) Singing.
(d) Dancing.

7. What does Alfonso say is left of Sonya, as she is being pushed around by the soldiers?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Her silence.
(c) Her love for her people.
(d) A puppet that speaks only in sign language.

8. How is Petya’s body treated by the soldiers?
(a) It is quickly picked up and put in a truck.
(b) It is left for the dogs.
(c) It is carefully put on a gurney and wheeled away.
(d) It is dragged away with little care or dignity for him.

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

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

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

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

13. In “Of Weddings before the War,” what does the speaker NOT mention?
(a) Coins.
(b) The arrival of soldiers to town.
(c) A large, expensive wedding gown.
(d) A taxi ride.

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

15. 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) Her throat.
(d) Sonya's pain and anguish.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Still Newlyweds,” Alfonso says that when Sonya steps out of the shower, it does what?

2. In “Alfonso, in the Snow,” Alfonso talks to himself saying he is alive and must do what?

3. Alfonso says that who have something to tell that not even they can hear?

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

5. Sonya and Alfonso sneak through the city telling everyone to do what?

(see the answer keys)

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