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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. Alfonso says that who have something to tell that not even they can hear?
(a) Ordinary people.
(b) Children.
(c) The deaf.
(d) The soldiers.

2. To what does the speaker say is the only barricade for the townspeople?
(a) Faith.
(b) A river.
(c) Deafness.
(d) Furniture.

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

4. What does Sonya do in “As Soldiers Choke the Stairwell”?
(a) She sings.
(b) She learns more sign language.
(c) She plays the piano.
(d) She scratches the skin off her legs.

5. Alfonso says that in the nursery, quiet hisses like what?
(a) A snake in a river.
(b) A gas leak.
(c) The steam from a radiator.
(d) A match dropped in water.

Short Answer 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?

2. Sonya stands and holds up a sign that someone has given her. What does the sign say?

3. Why does Alfonso say he is answerable in “Alfonso Stands Answerable”?

4. For whom is Alfonso looking for initially in “4 a.m. Bombardment”?

5. Alfonso says Sonya speaks against silence, all the while knowing 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 does “Gunshot” say about the country of the characters in this story?

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

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

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

6. What happens in “Arrival”?

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

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

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

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