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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For what food can people view a naked Sonya?
(a) A loaf of bread.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) An apple.
(d) Meat.

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

4. “In Soldiers Aim at Us,” what do the soldiers do to make the townspeople run away, so they can get Petya’s body?
(a) They rush at the townspeople and knock them over.
(b) They shout at them.
(c) They fire their weapons.
(d) They physically remove them from around Petya.

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

6. What do the signs around town say is the danger of deafness?
(a) It is contagious.
(b) It is deadly.
(c) It is a sign of cancer.
(d) It is hard to correct.

7. What happens if townspeople show signs of deafness?
(a) They are sent for surgery.
(b) They are ignored.
(c) They are to turn themselves in.
(d) They are told to go home and quaratine.

8. How much does Sonya and Alfonso’s daughter weigh at birth?
(a) 7 pounds.
(b) 8 pounds.
(c) 6 pounds.
(d) 5 pounds.

9. Who does Alfonso say picks breadcrumbs from each citizen’s eyes and watches their legs as they run and fall?
(a) The leaders of his country.
(b) The blue canary of his country.
(c) The yellow canary of his country.
(d) His neighbors and friends.

10. How many soldiers shove Sonya across town?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

11. 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) The evil that has arrived to their town.
(c) The nakedness of the whole nation.
(d) Her throat.

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

13. How does Sonya die?
(a) By hanging.
(b) By suicide.
(c) By firing squad.
(d) By lethal injection.

14. Alfonso says there is such fire from what?
(a) Burning buildings.
(b) A nearby forest fire.
(c) A match the Lord never lit.
(d) Pain and suffering.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “The Map of Bones and Open Valves,” the townspeople act deaf, so the soldiers begin doing what?

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

4. 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?

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

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