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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 “Galya’s Toast,” what does Galya NOT toast?
(a) Your voice.
(b) The wonders of the mind.
(c) The twenty-six bones of one foot.
(d) The four dimensions of breathing.

2. The townspeople want to leave their funerals and help Momma Galya drop off what in the mailboxes of those who have been arrested?
(a) Bouquets of flowers.
(b) Envelopes of money.
(c) Loaves of bread.
(d) Letters.

3. In “A Cigarette,” the speaker tells the reader to watch and see how the townspeople of Vasenka do not realize that they are proof of what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Loss.
(c) Hope.
(d) Love.

4. How many soldiers shove Sonya across town?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

5. For what food can people view a naked Sonya?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) An apple.
(c) Meat.
(d) A loaf of bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the townspeople do in “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck” in response to the killing of the soldier?

2. How do the soldiers torture Alfonso?

3. The poet says that when Petya is shot, a sound is not heard by the crowd, but what is noticed?

4. Alfonso and three-day old Anushka come home to their apartment where they find what?

5. In “Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air,” the speaker says that the story is of those who danced how before God?

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