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

2. In “We Lived Happily during the War,” an unknown speaker says that when homes are bombed, what happens?
(a) People fight for their freedom.
(b) People run for cover.
(c) People protest, but it is too little too late.
(d) People will do anything to survive.

3. What do Sonya and Alfonso teach others in Central Square?
(a) Russian.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sign language.
(d) Puppetry.

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

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?
(a) "Soldiers Aim at Us."
(b) "Alfonso, in the Snow."
(c) "Deafness, an Insurgency Begins."
(d) "Gunshot."

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Mama Galya and her puppeteers do at Sonya’s funeral?

2. How is Petya’s body treated by the soldiers?

3. What does Anushka achieve in “In Bombardment, Galya”?

4. How much does Sonya and Alfonso’s daughter weigh at birth?

5. The speaker says that Alfonso played the accordion out of tune where the only musical instrument of his country is what?

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