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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens to those who are caught unable to hear the soldiers?
2. How much does Sonya and Alfonso’s daughter weigh at birth?
3. For what food can people view a naked Sonya?
4. In “Alfonso Stands Answerable,” how does the narrator describe the people of town on the first day of arrests?
5. Alfonso says that a bathtub, infant, and marriage bed are what?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Dramatis Personae," the speaker describes the characters that will be found in the poem. Who are two of the characters, and how are they described?
2. In “The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body,” what do the townspeople do to protect Petya’s body?
3. In “Alfonso, in Snow,” what does the speaker say about himself?
4. What does the speaker say in “A Cigarette” about the townspeople?
5. In “A Dog Sniffs,” what happens to Sonya?
6. What takes place in “Soldiers Aim at Us?”
7. What happens in “Arrival”?
8. What does Alfonso say about his and his wife’s bathing ritual?
9. How does Alfonso react to his wife’s murder?
10. In “Deafness, an Insurgency, Begins,” what does the speaker say about his country, the day after Petya is murdered?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In less than a year the lives of the Vasenka townspeople are turned upside down. Sonya is taken from her baby and murdered three days postpartum. What is the impact of this quick decline in the town of Vasenka on the reader? What does this say about one's own safety and security? What does this also reveal about what humans are capable of doing to other humans?
Essay Topic 2
Alfonso says he wife was a door-slammer and he a fool. What does he mean by this? Would you agree that he is foolish? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
The story begins with Anushka as an unborn child and ends with her as a toddler. How does Anushka give the story a timeline and reveal to the readers the short amount of time in which the story takes place? Why might the poet have chosen to do this? How do these details affect the reader?
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