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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 “And While Puppeteers Are Arrested,” there is silence which leads to what?
(a) Arrests.
(b) Escape.
(c) Beatings.
(d) Hangings.

2. In “I, This Body,” begins with Alfonso being held up at Sonya’s funeral only by what?
(a) Mama Galya.
(b) His neighbors.
(c) The hand of God.
(d) A cane.

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

4. What happens if townspeople show signs of deafness?
(a) They are told to go home and quaratine.
(b) They are ignored.
(c) They are sent for surgery.
(d) They are to turn themselves in.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sonya stands and holds up a sign that someone has given her. What does the sign say?

2. As the morning begins and the town comes to life, soldiers stand about looking for those who are deaf, and Alfonso is desperately looking for whom?

3. What is Anushka wrapped up in at her mother’s funeral?

4. When the speaker asks God why he allowed such an act, what is God’s response?

5. What do Sonya and Alfonso teach others in Central Square?

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