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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 speaker says that Alfonso played the accordion out of tune where the only musical instrument of his country is what?
(a) The balalaika.
(b) The harp.
(c) The door.
(d) The accordion.

2. Who does Alfonso say picks breadcrumbs from each citizen’s eyes and watches their legs as they run and fall?
(a) The leaders of his country.
(b) His neighbors and friends.
(c) The yellow canary of his country.
(d) The blue canary of his country.

3. How do the soldiers torture Alfonso?
(a) They put him in the stocks.
(b) They bind his hands together.
(c) With a fire hose.
(d) They hang a sign around his neck and parade him naked through the streets.

4. In “Central Square,” those who are arrested are forced to walk how?
(a) Chained together.
(b) With their feet chained together.
(c) With their arms up.
(d) Backward.

5. What does Sonya call Alfonso, playfully, In “While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses"?
(a) Young man.
(b) Stranger.
(c) Pig.
(d) Lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “What We Cannot Hear,” Sonya is forced into an army jeep one morning in what month?

2. What does the poet say about parenting, based on the actions of Momma Galya?

3. 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?

4. In “Checkpoints” where do the soldiers set up hearing testing sites?

5. Sonya had once said that that she would be doing what the day they came to arrest her?

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