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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do girls and boys do to the soldier?
(a) They spit at him.
(b) They hit him.
(c) They spray water on him.
(d) They dance with him.

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

3. Alfonso and three-day old Anushka come home to their apartment where they find what?
(a) The dirty snow from Sonya’s boots is still on the floor.
(b) More soldiers.
(c) No food or heat.
(d) Mama Galya.

4. What is Anushka wrapped up in at her mother’s funeral?
(a) Her mother's shawl.
(b) Burlap.
(c) A pink blanket.
(d) A green handkerchief.

5. How does Alfonso kill the soldier?
(a) He shoots him.
(b) He stabs him, puncturing his lung.
(c) He strangles him.
(d) He beats him up.

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

7. How old is Momma Galya?
(a) 43.
(b) 63.
(c) 33.
(d) 53.

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

9. How is Alfonso put to death?
(a) By the guillotine.
(b) By hanging.
(c) By firing squad.
(d) By lethal injection.

10. In “Question,” the speaker asks what a man is and responds how?
(a) The head of the household.
(b) The center of a family.
(c) It is the quiet between two bombardments.
(d) The calming presence.

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

12. What does Alfonso down like a shot of vodka before killing the soldier?
(a) A glass of water.
(b) Orange juice.
(c) A glass of milk.
(d) A raw egg.

13. What group of people has been arrested following the murder of the soldiers by the puppeteers?
(a) All the women of Vasenka.
(b) All the women on Tedna Street.
(c) All the puppeteers.
(d) All the men on Tedna Street.

14. When Alfonso talks to himself, for what does he long?
(a) His wife’s voice.
(b) Sedation.
(c) A new life.
(d) Silence.

15. The soldiers initially go to her theater to arrest Galya but then do what?
(a) Arrest other puppeteers instead.
(b) Disappear.
(c) Come back every night.
(d) Never return to the theater.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Galya says she traveled in her life as close to what as she dared to go?

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

4. Galya says she is not deaf but has told the world to do what?

5. No one stands up for Alfonso. What do they say?

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