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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the speaker asks God why he allowed such an act, what is God’s response?
(a) Everyone chooses one's own fate.
(b) An echo of the question.
(c) Every man has free will.
(d) He did not allow it.

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

3. Alfonso and three-day old Anushka come home to their apartment where they find what?
(a) No food or heat.
(b) More soldiers.
(c) The dirty snow from Sonya’s boots is still on the floor.
(d) Mama Galya.

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

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

6. 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) Binoculars.
(b) A microscope.
(c) A balcony.
(d) A window.

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

8. Galya says she traveled in her life as close to what as she dared to go?
(a) God.
(b) Danger.
(c) Hell.
(d) Murder.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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 river.
(b) The water.
(c) The earth.
(d) The wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle,” what does it say Momma Galya Armolinskaya has more of than anyone else in town?

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

3. In “Soldiers Don’t Like Looking Foolish,” whose names are posted on the wall?

4. How does Alfonso kill the soldier?

5. What does the sign say that is hanging around the neck of a drunk soldier?

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