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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Galya is compared to what, as she steals bread from market stalls but also as she cannot help but touch Anushka’s baby clothes in the laundry basket.
(a) A ghost.
(b) The wind.
(c) God.
(d) A rat.

2. What does the poet say about parenting, based on the actions of Momma Galya?
(a) Parenting is always beautiful.
(b) Parenting is not for the weak.
(c) Parenting costs us a little dignity.
(d) Parenting is not for everyone.

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

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

5. What do the girls steal during all the commotion?
(a) The rubles.
(b) The box of oranges.
(c) Vodka.
(d) The milk.

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

7. 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 burn down the town.
(d) They want to purchase rifles.

8. What do two of Momma Galya’s puppeteers do in front of the checkpoint, to distract the soldiers?
(a) They kiss.
(b) They get into a fight.
(c) They put on a puppet show.
(d) They dance.

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

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

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

12. What does the speaker say is the best education during wartime?
(a) Bootcamp.
(b) How to open the door and walk through.
(c) To keep one's mouth shut and eyes open.
(d) Math, science, and language.

13. Like young men, the days of May walk to prison wearing what?
(a) Shorts and shirt.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Stripes.
(d) Overcoats thrown over their pajamas.

14. In “In Bombardment, Galya,” how many consecutive days of aerial attacks has Vasenka suffered?
(a) 9.
(b) 18.
(c) 21.
(d) 27.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alfonso kill the soldier?

2. What of Sonya’s does Alfonso put on after her death?

3. In “Galya’s Puppeteers,” one of Galya’s puppeteers does what to Ivanoff before killing him?

4. What do the townspeople try not to notice about Momma Galya?

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

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