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

2. What does Momma Galya want her neighbors to come see, regarding Anushka?
(a) Anushka just pooped on the park bench.
(b) Anushka just said her first word.
(c) Anushka just learned how to walk.
(d) Anushka called her, "Momma."

3. What does Alfonso down like a shot of vodka before killing the soldier?
(a) A raw egg.
(b) Orange juice.
(c) A glass of milk.
(d) A glass of water.

4. How do the puppeteers kill the soldiers?
(a) They shoot them.
(b) They strangle them with puppet strings.
(c) They poison them.
(d) They push them off the balcony.

5. What does the sign say that is hanging around Sonya’s neck?
(a) She is deaf.
(b) She resisted arrest.
(c) She is a thief.
(d) She is an enemy of the state.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Momma Galya?

2. In “What We Cannot Hear,” Sonya is forced into an army jeep one morning in what month?

3. 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?

4. The speaker in “Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air” asks that they be allowed to wash their faces in what?

5. Galya says she is not deaf but has told the world to do what?

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