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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. Alfonso says that a bathtub, infant, and marriage bed are what?
(a) His home.
(b) His country.
(c) His world.
(d) His loves.

2. 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) Happiness.
(b) Love.
(c) Loss.
(d) Hope.

3. When Alfonso and Sonya are on the bridge, what does he notice about the helicopter overhead?
(a) It puts a spotlight on Sonya.
(b) It looks like it might crash.
(c) It is trying to fire at them.
(d) It does not see them.

4. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” an unknown speaker says that when homes are bombed, what happens?
(a) People fight for their freedom.
(b) People protest, but it is too little too late.
(c) People will do anything to survive.
(d) People run for cover.

5. What do Sonya and Alfonso teach others in Central Square?
(a) Sign language.
(b) Russian.
(c) Puppetry.
(d) Dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. “In Soldiers Aim at Us,” what do the soldiers do to make the townspeople run away, so they can get Petya’s body?

2. In what poem does the country wake up the next day and, in the name of Petya, refuse to hear the soldiers in the streets?

3. How is Petya’s body treated by the soldiers?

4. How do the townspeople in “Alfonso Stands Answerable” respond to the police?

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

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