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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In “Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle,” what does it say Momma Galya Armolinskaya has more of than anyone else in town?
(a) Children.
(b) Sex.
(c) Friends.
(d) Enemies.

3. 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 try to hide Alfonso.
(b) They scream and cry in agony and fear.
(c) They cheer and pat Alfonso’s back.
(d) They are silent.

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

5. No one stands up for Alfonso. What do they say?
(a) Our silence stands up for us.
(b) We can barely stand up for ourselves.
(c) Nothing.
(d) We are afraid.

6. Who gives the signal to attack the soldier?
(a) The girls.
(b) Alfonso.
(c) Mama Galya.
(d) The boys.

7. The speaker says that those who make love may borrow the light from who?
(a) Venus.
(b) The sun.
(c) The blind.
(d) God.

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

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

10. During the day, Galya, riding her green bicycle, throws what at military checkpoints?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Homemade explosive devices.
(c) Empty milk bottles.
(d) Bombs.

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

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

13. The townspeople, who are the speakers, wish they could leave their funerals with Momma Galya in what vehicle?
(a) A shiny carriage.
(b) A black limousine.
(c) A yellow taxi.
(d) A black hearse.

14. 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 wildest woman in the country.
(c) The luckiest woman in the country.
(d) The craziest woman in the country.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “Elegy,” how many words does Alfonso pray?

3. What do Mama Galya and her puppeteers do at Sonya’s funeral?

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

5. What does Momma Galya say deafness really is?

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