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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. When an army jeep pulls up into Central Square, what does the Seargeant inside tell the crowd to do?
(a) Disperse.
(b) Drop to the ground.
(c) Hold still.
(d) Stop laughing.

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

3. Before midday arrests begin to take place, and the speaker says that the people’s hearing has not diminished but what has grown stronger?
(a) Something silent inside of them.
(b) Their ability to hear.
(c) Their fear.
(d) Their faith in the Lord.

4. When the Sergeant calls to Petya, what does Petya do?
(a) He stops giggling and grows silent.
(b) He shouts at the Sergeant.
(c) He spits in his face.
(d) He tries to hide.

5. In “Alfonso, in the Snow,” Alfonso talks to himself saying he is alive and must do what?
(a) Hurry.
(b) Listen.
(c) Hide.
(d) Run.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sonya do in “As Soldiers Choke the Stairwell”?

2. In “Question,” what is the response when the speaker asks the question, “What is a child”?

3. How many soldiers shove Sonya across town?

4. The poet says that when Petya is shot, a sound is not heard by the crowd, but what is noticed?

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

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