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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Sonya and Alfonso sneak through the city telling everyone to do what?
(a) Forge illegal papers.
(b) Hide.
(c) Be courageous.
(d) Run away.

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) His pregnant wife.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) A soldier.
(d) His child.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the audience respond when the sergeant puppet reacts to Petya’s sneeze?

2. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” how does the speaker refer to America?

3. Alfonso says that you can have sex with anyone, but you cannot do what with just anyone?

4. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” an unknown speaker says that when homes are bombed, what happens?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are puppets hung outside the homes of some of the townspeople?

2. In “The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body,” what do the townspeople do to protect Petya’s body?

3. In “Lullaby,” what does Alfonso say will protect his daughter?

4. In “While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses,” what does Sonya say about Alfonso’ appearance?

5. In “4 a.m. Bombardment,” what is Alfonso doing?

6. In “Alfonso Stands Answerable,” to whom does Alfonso say he is answerable?

7. What happens in “Central Square?”

8. In "Dramatis Personae," the speaker describes the characters that will be found in the poem. Who are two of the characters, and how are they described?

9. What is the topic of both “Of Weddings before the War” and “Still Newlyweds”?

10. In “As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face with a Newspaper,” how does Sonya react to her cousin’s murder?

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