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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 world.
(b) His home.
(c) His country.
(d) His loves.

2. “Gunshot” begins by comparing the country to what?
(a) The barrel of a gun.
(b) A bullet.
(c) A shooting.
(d) A stage.

3. As Petya’s body lies on the asphalt, what does Alfonso wonder?
(a) Why he, Alfonso, is alive.
(b) Why people kill other people.
(c) Why Petya had to spit in the Sergeant's face.
(d) Why his town is being taken over.

4. Alfonso says that you can have sex with anyone, but you cannot do what with just anyone?
(a) Care for them.
(b) Sit in water.
(c) Love them.
(d) Die for them.

5. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” America is described as falling how?
(a) Hard and fast.
(b) Like snowflakes in a snow storm.
(c) One politician at a time.
(d) Invisible house by invisible house.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Alfonso drink after Sonya is murdered?

3. What do the signs around town say is the danger of deafness?

4. Before midday arrests begin to take place, and the speaker says that the people’s hearing has not diminished but what has grown stronger?

5. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” an unknown speaker says that when homes are bombed, what happens?

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