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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. The section ends with Alfonso saying that a man cannot flick off the sky. Why?
(a) There are too many more important things to do.
(b) It is too dangerous to do this.
(c) Every person on the earth is already a finger flipped at the sky.
(d) It is not right to act this way.

2. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” it has been how many months since America has had a terrible leader?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

3. What do the townspeople do when soldiers arrive back in the square to take Petya’s body?
(a) They give the soldier's Petya's body.
(b) They charge the soldiers.
(c) They encircle Sonya, Alfonso, and the Petya with their arms locked together.
(d) They run and hide.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what food can people view a naked Sonya?

2. Alfonso says he does not know much more about Sonya than the freckles on her shoulders. How does this make him feel?

3. 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?

4. How is Petya’s body treated by the soldiers?

5. What does Sonya do in “As Soldiers Choke the Stairwell”?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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