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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the townspeople in “Alfonso Stands Answerable” respond to the police?
(a) With deafness.
(b) With violent protests.
(c) With stealing and rioting.
(d) With peaceful marches.

2. Sonya and Alfonso sneak through the city telling everyone to do what?
(a) Run away.
(b) Hide.
(c) Forge illegal papers.
(d) Be courageous.

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

4. How does the audience respond when the sergeant puppet reacts to Petya’s sneeze?
(a) They become nervous.
(b) They begin to shout angrily.
(c) They freeze.
(d) They laugh.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The section ends with Alfonso saying that a man cannot flick off the sky. Why?

2. What happens if townspeople show signs of deafness?

3. How does Sonya die?

4. When the puppet mimics the demand of the military personnel, all freeze but Petya. What does he do?

5. Alfonso says Sonya speaks against silence, all the while knowing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. In “The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body,” what do the townspeople do to protect Petya’s body?

2. What does the speaker say in “For His Wife”?

3. In “As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face with a Newspaper,” how does Sonya react to her cousin’s murder?

4. In “Alfonso Stands Answerable,” to whom does Alfonso say he is answerable?

5. In “Deafness, an Insurgency, Begins,” what does the speaker say about his country, the day after Petya is murdered?

6. In “Checkpoints” what do the soldiers set up around town and why?

7. What does the speaker say in “A Cigarette” about the townspeople?

8. In “Lullaby,” what does Alfonso say will protect his daughter?

9. In "Dramatis Personae," the speaker describes the characters that will be found in the poem. Who are two of the characters, and how are they described?

10. In “Alfonso, in Snow,” what does the speaker say about himself?

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