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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. As the morning begins and the town comes to life, soldiers stand about looking for those who are deaf, and Alfonso is desperately looking for whom?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) His child.
(c) A soldier.
(d) His pregnant wife.

2. In “Of Weddings before the War,” what does the speaker NOT mention?
(a) A large, expensive wedding gown.
(b) Coins.
(c) The arrival of soldiers to town.
(d) A taxi ride.

3. In “Question,” what is the response when the speaker asks the question, “What is a child”?
(a) The quiet found between two bombardments.
(b) The physical love of two people.
(c) The future of the whole world.
(d) Our only hope.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alfonso doing when Sonya is taken by force in a jeep?

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

3. When the puppet mimics the demand of the military personnel, all freeze but Petya. What does he do?

4. When Alfonso and Sonya are on the bridge, what does he notice about the helicopter overhead?

5. As Sonya shouts, and the townspeople see in her cry and gaping mouth, what does the poet say can be seen?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happens in “Central Square?”

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

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

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

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

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