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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. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” an unknown speaker says that when homes are bombed, what happens?
2. In “Central Square,” those who are arrested are forced to walk how?
3. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” it has been how many months since America has had a terrible leader?
4. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” how does the speaker refer to America?
5. In “Question,” what is the response when the speaker asks the question, “What is a child”?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens in “Arrival”?
2. In “Deafness, an Insurgency, Begins,” what does the speaker say about his country, the day after Petya is murdered?
3. 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?
4. In “4 a.m. Bombardment,” what is Alfonso doing?
5. In “The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body,” what do the townspeople do to protect Petya’s body?
6. What does the speaker say in “For His Wife”?
7. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” the speaker says what happened when homes were bombed?
8. What does the speaker say in “A Cigarette” about the townspeople?
9. In “Alfonso, in Snow,” what does the speaker say about himself?
10. In “The Map of Bones and Open Valves,” what do Sonya and Alfonso sneak through the city doing? How do they feel about this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The collection of poetry begins and ends with poems about the U.S. What is the subject matter of these poems? What is the purpose of the poems? How do they relate to the rest of the poems? Why might the poet have chosen to have them as bookends for his collection?
Essay Topic 2
Puppets are symbolic in this poem. What is the purpose of the puppets? What do they represent? Are they an effective use of symbolism? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Alfonso is in shock that his wife, the door-slammer, is dead and he, the fool, is alive. Are you, the reader, as shocked as he is? Why or why not? How are others in this poetry collection door-slammers or fools? What does this say about people? What is the message given to the reader?
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