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. 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?
(a) The river.
(b) The water.
(c) The earth.
(d) The wind.

2. “In As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face with a Newspaper,” how many people watch as Sonya puts the now-dead Petya’s glasses back on his face?
(a) 24.
(b) 14.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

3. Alfonso says that who have something to tell that not even they can hear?
(a) The deaf.
(b) Children.
(c) Ordinary people.
(d) The soldiers.

4. In “Lullaby,” what does Alfonso call his baby?
(a) Little angel.
(b) Little baby.
(c) Little one.
(d) Little earth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Galya is compared to what, as she steals bread from market stalls but also as she cannot help but touch Anushka’s baby clothes in the laundry basket.

2. How many soldiers shove Sonya across town?

3. How does Alfonso kill the soldier?

4. As Sonya shouts, and the townspeople see in her cry and gaping mouth, what does the poet say can be seen?

5. How does the audience respond when the sergeant puppet reacts to Petya’s sneeze?

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