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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 “We Lived Happily during the War,” America is described as falling how?
(a) Like snowflakes in a snow storm.
(b) One politician at a time.
(c) Invisible house by invisible house.
(d) Hard and fast.

2. During the day, Galya, riding her green bicycle, throws what at military checkpoints?
(a) Homemade explosive devices.
(b) Empty milk bottles.
(c) Bombs.
(d) Flowers.

3. Galya says she traveled in her life as close to what as she dared to go?
(a) God.
(b) Danger.
(c) Hell.
(d) Murder.

4. In “Of Weddings before the War,” what does the speaker NOT mention?
(a) A large, expensive wedding gown.
(b) The arrival of soldiers to town.
(c) Coins.
(d) A taxi ride.

5. What do Mama Galya and her puppeteers do at Sonya’s funeral?
(a) They give Sonya's eulogy.
(b) They sing a song in Sonya's honor.
(c) They shake Alfonso’s hand.
(d) They hug Alfonso.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Momma Galya say deafness really is?

2. What is something Alfonso does NOT say protects his daughter, in “Lullaby”?

3. In “Momma Galya First Protested,” Momma Galya smokes a cigarette and shouts to the soldiers to do what?

4. The soldiers initially go to her theater to arrest Galya but then do what?

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

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