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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. 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) "Deafness, an Insurgency Begins."
(b) "Alfonso, in the Snow."
(c) "Gunshot."
(d) "Soldiers Aim at Us."

2. Sonya stands and holds up a sign that someone has given her. What does the sign say?
(a) We will not give in.
(b) Do not tread on me.
(c) For Petya.
(d) The people are deaf.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Alfonso say about his wife’s words and actions in “Before the War, We Made a Child”?

4. How much does Sonya and Alfonso’s daughter weigh at birth?

5. “Gunshot” begins by comparing the country to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What takes place in “Soldiers Aim at Us?”

3. What does “Gunshot” say about the country of the characters in this story?

4. In “Alfonso, in Snow,” what does the speaker say about himself?

5. In “Checkpoints” what do the soldiers set up around town and why?

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

7. In “The Map of Bones and Open Valves,” what do Sonya and Alfonso sneak through the city doing? How do they feel about this?

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

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

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

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