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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. What is something Alfonso does NOT say protects his daughter, in “Lullaby”?
(a) Walls.
(b) Rainwater.
(c) The army.
(d) Branches.

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

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

4. In “What We Cannot Hear,” Sonya is forced into an army jeep one morning in what month?
(a) July.
(b) June.
(c) May.
(d) April.

5. “Gunshot” begins by comparing the country to what?
(a) The barrel of a gun.
(b) A bullet.
(c) A stage.
(d) A shooting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfonso drink after Sonya is murdered?

2. Sonya says a man should smell better than what?

3. Before midday arrests begin to take place, and the speaker says that the people’s hearing has not diminished but what has grown stronger?

4. In “Alfonso Stands Answerable,” how does the narrator describe the people of town on the first day of arrests?

5. In “The Map of Bones and Open Valves,” the townspeople act deaf, so the soldiers begin doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alfonso react to his wife’s murder?

2. In “Deafness, an Insurgency, Begins,” what does the speaker say about his country, the day after Petya is murdered?

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

4. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” the speaker says what happened when homes were bombed?

5. What does the speaker say in “A Cigarette” about the townspeople?

6. What happens in “Central Square?”

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

8. In “4 a.m. Bombardment,” as the morning begins and the town comes to life what are the soldiers doing? What is Alfonso doing?

9. What does Alfonso say about his and his wife’s bathing ritual?

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

(see the answer keys)

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