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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Checkpoints - For His Wife.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker tells God that he can be found, like what beak, pecking everywhere at astonishment?
(a) A dove’s.
(b) A cardinal’s.
(c) A duck’s.
(d) A pigeon’s.

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

3. In “A Cigarette,” the speaker tells the reader to watch and see how the townspeople of Vasenka do not realize that they are proof of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Loss.
(c) Hope.
(d) Happiness.

4. After curfew, the families of those who have had loved ones arrested do what as a form of resistance?
(a) Hang puppets outside their homes.
(b) Keep their lights on.
(c) Hang the shoes of their loved ones outside their doors.
(d) Play music.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Alfonso Stands Answerable,” how does the narrator describe the people of town on the first day of arrests?

2. How much does Sonya and Alfonso’s daughter weigh at birth?

3. Alfonso says that a bathtub, infant, and marriage bed are what?

4. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” how does the speaker refer to America?

5. What does Alfonso say is left of Sonya, as she is being pushed around by the soldiers?

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