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

2. As Petya’s body lies on the asphalt, what does Alfonso wonder?
(a) Why he, Alfonso, is alive.
(b) Why Petya had to spit in the Sergeant's face.
(c) Why people kill other people.
(d) Why his town is being taken over.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. To whom does Alfonso thank for the deafness of the townspeople?

5. What is the purpose of “Dramatis Personae”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In “A Dog Sniffs,” what happens to Sonya?

10. What does the speaker say in “For His Wife”?

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