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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. What are the philosophical words mentioned in “Eulogy”?
(a) To live is to love.
(b) To love is to live.
(c) We must speak not only of great devastation.
(d) We must always have hope.

2. In “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” what does Alfonso do?
(a) He sings at the top of his lungs.
(b) He runs quickly away.
(c) He dances in the street.
(d) He stumbles away from the dead body.

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

4. What Alfonso cannot believe about his door-slamming wife?
(a) She is in hiding somewhere.
(b) She allowed them to kill her.
(c) She betrayed him.
(d) She is gone.

5. As Petya’s body lies on the asphalt, what does Alfonso wonder?
(a) Why Petya had to spit in the Sergeant's face.
(b) Why he, Alfonso, is alive.
(c) Why his town is being taken over.
(d) Why people kill other people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Momma Galya?

2. Why does Alfonso say he is answerable in “Alfonso Stands Answerable”?

3. The speaker tells God that he can be found, like what beak, pecking everywhere at astonishment?

4. 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?

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

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