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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the townspeople try not to notice about Momma Galya?
(a) Her face.
(b) Her weight.
(c) Her nipples.
(d) Her personality.

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

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

5. In “What Are Days,” the speaker compares the days of May to whom?
(a) Young men.
(b) Middle-aged men.
(c) Old women.
(d) Children.

6. Why does Alfonso kill the soldier?
(a) He is insane.
(b) He does not think the boys know how to kill a man.
(c) He wants revenge.
(d) He wants to die.

7. The speaker in “Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air” asks that they be allowed to wash their faces in what?
(a) The earth.
(b) The water.
(c) The wind.
(d) The river.

8. What does the sign say that is hanging around the neck of a drunk soldier?
(a) "I am pure evil."
(b) "I killed the women of Vasenka."
(c) "I tortured and killed Sonya."
(d) "I arrested the women of Vasenka."

9. What do the townspeople do in “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck” in response to the killing of the soldier?
(a) They are silent.
(b) They try to hide Alfonso.
(c) They scream and cry in agony and fear.
(d) They cheer and pat Alfonso’s back.

10. What of Sonya’s does Alfonso put on after her death?
(a) Her shawl.
(b) One of her dresses.
(c) Her nightgown.
(d) Her red socks.

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

12. How "Soldiers Don't Like Looking Foolish" end?
(a) A riot begins.
(b) The people go into hiding, and a vegetable stand explodes.
(c) The puppeteers are released.
(d) Momma Galya runs away with Anushka.

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

14. The townspeople want to leave their funerals and help Momma Galya drop off what in the mailboxes of those who have been arrested?
(a) Loaves of bread.
(b) Letters.
(c) Envelopes of money.
(d) Bouquets of flowers.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. What does Momma Galya say deafness really is?

3. To what does the speaker compare the tossing of Alfonso on the sidewalk?

4. In “Galya’s Toast,” what does Galya NOT toast?

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

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