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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. As Sonya shouts, and the townspeople see in her cry and gaping mouth, what does the poet say can be seen?
(a) Sonya's pain and anguish.
(b) Her throat.
(c) The nakedness of the whole nation.
(d) The evil that has arrived to their town.

2. Sonya says a man should smell better than what?
(a) A pig sty.
(b) A toilet.
(c) A barn.
(d) His country.

3. 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.

4. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” it has been how many months since America has had a terrible leader?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

5. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” how does the speaker refer to America?
(a) A country of diversity.
(b) A country of money.
(c) A country of the courageous.
(d) A country of freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is something Alfonso does NOT say protects his daughter, in “Lullaby”?

2. Sonya had once said that that she would be doing what the day they came to arrest her?

3. Sonya and Alfonso sneak through the city telling everyone to do what?

4. What does Alfonso say about his wife’s words and actions in “Before the War, We Made a Child”?

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

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