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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. In “A Cigarette,” the speaker tells the reader to watch and see how the townspeople of Vasenka do not realize that they are proof of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Loss.
(d) Hope.

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

3. The poet says that when Petya is shot, a sound is not heard by the crowd, but what is noticed?
(a) It begins to rain.
(b) The sound sends the birds up into the air.
(c) The soldiers disperse.
(d) The look of revenge on the Sergeant's face.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Still Newlyweds,” Alfonso says that when Sonya steps out of the shower, it does what?

2. What does Alfonso say about his wife’s words and actions in “Before the War, We Made a Child”?

3. What does Momma Galya do on stage, as the lights grow dim?

4. How does Alfonso kill the soldier?

5. What do Mama Galya and her puppeteers do at Sonya’s funeral?

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