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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 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?
(a) The kindest woman in the country.
(b) The luckiest woman in the country.
(c) The wildest woman in the country.
(d) The craziest woman in the country.

2. What is Alfonso doing when Sonya is taken by force in a jeep?
(a) Begging for her to be released.
(b) Hiding in the closet with Anushka.
(c) Rocking Anushka.
(d) Out looking for bread.

3. When the puppet mimics the demand of the military personnel, all freeze but Petya. What does he do?
(a) He continues to giggle.
(b) He cries.
(c) He becomes angry.
(d) He continues to tell the story with his puppet.

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

5. “Gunshot” begins by comparing the country to what?
(a) A stage.
(b) A shooting.
(c) The barrel of a gun.
(d) A bullet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sonya die?

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

3. What does Momma Galya want her neighbors to come see, regarding Anushka?

4. Alfonso says that Sonya’s voice, although it cannot be heard, is what?

5. Galya asks God to bless what?

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