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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. “In As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face with a Newspaper,” how many people watch as Sonya puts the now-dead Petya’s glasses back on his face?
(a) 10.
(b) 4.
(c) 14.
(d) 24.

2. What does Alfonso say about his wife’s words and actions in “Before the War, We Made a Child”?
(a) They are sweet and innocent.
(b) They are all requests for him to join her in bed.
(c) They are the words of a young bride.
(d) They kind and gentle.

3. Alfonso says he does not know much more about Sonya than the freckles on her shoulders. How does this make him feel?
(a) It thrills him but also makes him feel alone.
(b) It makes him want to get to know her on a deeper level.
(c) It reminds him that they are newlyweds.
(d) It worries him.

4. 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) His pregnant wife.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) His child.
(d) A soldier.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” America is described as falling how?

3. In “Lullaby,” what does Alfonso call his baby?

4. What do the townspeople do when soldiers arrive back in the square to take Petya’s body?

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

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