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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Galya compares her body to what, so that God can watch the small child pulling up on a chair and Galya’s neighbors get arrested?
(a) A microscope.
(b) A window.
(c) A balcony.
(d) Binoculars.

2. What do the boys pay Alfonso for killing the soldier?
(a) A jar of milk.
(b) A loaf of bread.
(c) Fifty rubles.
(d) A box of oranges.

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

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

5. In “Momma Galya First Protested,” Momma Galya smokes a cigarette and shouts to the soldiers to do what?
(a) Cheer on her girls.
(b) Come inside.
(c) Go home to their wives.
(d) Pay up.

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

7. Galya asks God to bless what?
(a) Her and her child.
(b) The poor and distraught.
(c) Her country.
(d) Every single thing on earth.

8. In “Galya’s Toast,” what does Galya NOT toast?
(a) Your voice.
(b) The four dimensions of breathing.
(c) The twenty-six bones of one foot.
(d) The wonders of the mind.

9. In “The Townspeople Watch Them Take Alfonso,” the speaker says the townspeople watch as how many soldiers toss Alfonso on the sidewalk?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

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

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

12. 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 craziest woman in the country.
(b) The luckiest woman in the country.
(c) The wildest woman in the country.
(d) The kindest woman in the country.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alfonso kill the soldier?

2. Punishment for the murder of the soldiers by the puppeteers has led to what?

3. The townspeople, who are the speakers, wish they could leave their funerals with Momma Galya in what vehicle?

4. Alfonso and three-day old Anushka come home to their apartment where they find what?

5. How does Momma Galya react to reading the names posted on the wall?

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