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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. The section ends with Alfonso saying that a man cannot flick off the sky. Why?
(a) Every person on the earth is already a finger flipped at the sky.
(b) There are too many more important things to do.
(c) It is too dangerous to do this.
(d) It is not right to act this way.

2. In “Elegy,” how many words does Alfonso pray?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

3. After curfew, the families of those who have had loved ones arrested do what as a form of resistance?
(a) Keep their lights on.
(b) Play music.
(c) Hang the shoes of their loved ones outside their doors.
(d) Hang puppets outside their homes.

4. In “Checkpoints” where do the soldiers set up hearing testing sites?
(a) In the shopping district.
(b) All over town.
(c) In a few poor neighborhoods.
(d) In Central Square.

5. 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?
(a) A soldier.
(b) His pregnant wife.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) His child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sonya says a man should smell better than what?

2. In “Soldiers Don’t Like Looking Foolish,” whose names are posted on the wall?

3. What do the townspeople try not to notice about Momma Galya?

4. In “In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky,” why does Alfonso sometimes light a lamp?

5. The speaker considers Galya what, as she flies around on her bicycle in a pair of shorts with seemingly little care for the current regime or laws?

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