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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle - Soldiers Don't Like Looking Foolish.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker says that those who make love may borrow the light from who?
(a) Venus.
(b) God.
(c) The sun.
(d) The blind.

2. What does Anushka achieve in “In Bombardment, Galya”?
(a) She eats her first solid food.
(b) She begins to crawl.
(c) She takes her first steps.
(d) She says her first word.

3. For whom is Alfonso looking for initially in “4 a.m. Bombardment”?
(a) A man that resembles him.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) His child.

4. What are the little bundles in “The Little Bundles”?
(a) Anushka’s hair as it is cut and falls onto her shoulders.
(b) Laundry.
(c) Galya and Anushka's belongings.
(d) Loaves of bread wrapped up in cloth.

5. What do the townspeople try not to notice about Momma Galya?
(a) Her face.
(b) Her weight.
(c) Her personality.
(d) Her nipples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the townspeople do in “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck” in response to the killing of the soldier?

2. Alfonso says that in the nursery, quiet hisses like what?

3. The speaker says that Alfonso played the accordion out of tune where the only musical instrument of his country is what?

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

5. What do the boys pay Alfonso for killing the soldier?

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