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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “And While Puppeteers Are Arrested,” there is silence which leads to what?
(a) Beatings.
(b) Escape.
(c) Hangings.
(d) Arrests.

2. In “Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air,” the speaker says that the story is of those who danced how before God?
(a) Willingly.
(b) Wordless.
(c) Joyfully.
(d) Fearless.

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

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

5. What does Momma Galya want her neighbors to come see, regarding Anushka?
(a) Anushka just said her first word.
(b) Anushka just learned how to walk.
(c) Anushka just pooped on the park bench.
(d) Anushka called her, "Momma."

6. In “A Bundle of Laundry,” where is Anushka crying?
(a) In a crib in an orphanage.
(b) In a laundry basket.
(c) In the arms of a soldier.
(d) Inside the backroom of the checkpoint.

7. What does Anushka achieve in “In Bombardment, Galya”?
(a) She eats her first solid food.
(b) She says her first word.
(c) She takes her first steps.
(d) She begins to crawl.

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

9. What Alfonso cannot believe about his door-slamming wife?
(a) She is gone.
(b) She is in hiding somewhere.
(c) She betrayed him.
(d) She allowed them to kill her.

10. In “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” what does Alfonso do?
(a) He sings at the top of his lungs.
(b) He runs quickly away.
(c) He dances in the street.
(d) He stumbles away from the dead body.

11. How does Momma Galya react to reading the names posted on the wall?
(a) Her finger trembles as she drags it down the list of names.
(b) She cries as she reads the list of names.
(c) She only reads a few before she stops and walks away.
(d) She cheers as she reads the list.

12. Punishment for the murder of the soldiers by the puppeteers has led to what?
(a) A new shop being bombed each morning.
(b) All public gatherings have been banned.
(c) Hangings each day.
(d) The theater being shut down.

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

14. In “In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky,” Alfonso asks if he is seeing what?
(a) The little angel.
(b) The little soul.
(c) The little baby.
(d) The little light.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Momma Galya?

2. Why does Alfonso kill the soldier?

3. In “I, This Body,” begins with Alfonso being held up at Sonya’s funeral only by what?

4. In “In Bombardment, Galya,” how many consecutive days of aerial attacks has Vasenka suffered?

5. In “The Townspeople Watch Them Take Alfonso,” the speaker says the townspeople watch as how many soldiers toss Alfonso on the sidewalk?

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