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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. What does Momma Galya say deafness really is?
(a) A sexual position.
(b) A disease.
(c) A joke.
(d) A falsity.

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

3. In “A Bundle of Laundry,” where is Anushka crying?
(a) In a crib in an orphanage.
(b) In the arms of a soldier.
(c) In a laundry basket.
(d) Inside the backroom of the checkpoint.

4. What do the girls steal during all the commotion?
(a) Vodka.
(b) The box of oranges.
(c) The milk.
(d) The rubles.

5. What do the townspeople do when soldiers arrive back in the square to take Petya’s body?
(a) They run and hide.
(b) They charge the soldiers.
(c) They encircle Sonya, Alfonso, and the Petya with their arms locked together.
(d) They give the soldier's Petya's body.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “I, This Body,” begins with Alfonso being held up at Sonya’s funeral only by what?

2. In “In Bombardment, Galya,” how many consecutive days of aerial attacks has Vasenka suffered?

3. How is Alfonso put to death?

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

5. No one stands up for Alfonso. What do they say?

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