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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. How do the young men of Vasenka want to take revenge on the men who killed Sonya?
(a) They want to burn down the town.
(b) They want to purchase rifles.
(c) They want to perform a public killing of one of the soldiers.
(d) They want to form a militia.

2. What does Momma Galya do on stage, as the lights grow dim?
(a) She speaks to the crowd.
(b) She sings.
(c) She dances.
(d) She lights a match.

3. What does Momma Galya say deafness really is?
(a) A falsity.
(b) A sexual position.
(c) A disease.
(d) A joke.

4. What do the boys pay Alfonso for killing the soldier?
(a) A box of oranges.
(b) A jar of milk.
(c) A loaf of bread.
(d) Fifty rubles.

5. Sonya says a man should smell better than what?
(a) A barn.
(b) A pig sty.
(c) A toilet.
(d) His country.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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?

4. The speaker says that those who make love may borrow the light from who?

5. In what poem does the country wake up the next day and, in the name of Petya, refuse to hear the soldiers in the streets?

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