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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. Who gives the signal to attack the soldier?
(a) Mama Galya.
(b) Alfonso.
(c) The girls.
(d) The boys.

2. When the puppet mimics the demand of the military personnel, all freeze but Petya. What does he do?
(a) He becomes angry.
(b) He cries.
(c) He continues to giggle.
(d) He continues to tell the story with his puppet.

3. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” it has been how many months since America has had a terrible leader?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

4. How do the young men of Vasenka want to take revenge on the men who killed Sonya?
(a) They want to perform a public killing of one of the soldiers.
(b) They want to purchase rifles.
(c) They want to form a militia.
(d) They want to burn down the town.

5. What are the little bundles in “The Little Bundles”?
(a) Laundry.
(b) Galya and Anushka's belongings.
(c) Anushka’s hair as it is cut and falls onto her shoulders.
(d) Loaves of bread wrapped up in cloth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before midday arrests begin to take place, and the speaker says that the people’s hearing has not diminished but what has grown stronger?

2. The speaker says that Alfonso played the accordion out of tune where the only musical instrument of his country is what?

3. Alfonso says that in the nursery, quiet hisses like what?

4. In “Alfonso, in the Snow,” Alfonso talks to himself saying he is alive and must do what?

5. In “We Lived Happily before the War,” how does the speaker refer to America?

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