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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. Like young men, the days of May walk to prison wearing what?
(a) Overcoats thrown over their pajamas.
(b) Shorts and shirt.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Stripes.

2. What are the philosophical words mentioned in “Eulogy”?
(a) To love is to live.
(b) We must speak not only of great devastation.
(c) To live is to love.
(d) We must always have hope.

3. Punishment for the murder of the soldiers by the puppeteers has led to what?
(a) All public gatherings have been banned.
(b) Hangings each day.
(c) The theater being shut down.
(d) A new shop being bombed each morning.

4. In “Elegy,” how many words does Alfonso pray?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

5. In “What We Cannot Hear,” Sonya is forced into an army jeep one morning in what month?
(a) April.
(b) May.
(c) June.
(d) July.

Short Answer Questions

1. Galya compares her body to what, so that God can watch the small child pulling up on a chair and Galya’s neighbors get arrested?

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

3. In “Momma Galya First Protested,” Momma Galya smokes a cigarette and shouts to the soldiers to do what?

4. In “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” what does Alfonso do?

5. What do the girls steal during all the commotion?

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