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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. In what poem does the country wake up the next day and, in the name of Petya, refuse to hear the soldiers in the streets?
(a) "Alfonso, in the Snow."
(b) "Deafness, an Insurgency Begins."
(c) "Gunshot."
(d) "Soldiers Aim at Us."

6. What does Sonya do in “As Soldiers Choke the Stairwell”?
(a) She plays the piano.
(b) She learns more sign language.
(c) She scratches the skin off her legs.
(d) She sings.

7. 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 charge the soldiers.
(c) They give the soldier's Petya's body.
(d) They run and hide.

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

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

10. Alfonso says that a bathtub, infant, and marriage bed are what?
(a) His world.
(b) His home.
(c) His country.
(d) His loves.

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

12. In “Still Newlyweds,” Alfonso says that when Sonya steps out of the shower, it does what?
(a) Gives him another reason why he married her.
(b) It overwhelms him.
(c) Reminds him that there is a God.
(d) Calms the entire nation.

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

14. Alfonso says Sonya speaks against silence, all the while knowing what?
(a) She cannot stay silent.
(b) She will be caught.
(c) Silence will never end.
(d) Silence leads to speaking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfonso drink after Sonya is murdered?

2. In “Alfonso Stands Answerable,” to whom is he answerable?

3. What is Alfonso doing when Sonya is taken by force in a jeep?

4. When an army jeep pulls up into Central Square, what does the Seargeant inside tell the crowd to do?

5. In “The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body,” what is happening to the puppet lying near Petya?

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