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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do the girls steal during all the commotion?
(a) The milk.
(b) Vodka.
(c) The box of oranges.
(d) The rubles.
2. In “And While Puppeteers Are Arrested,” there is silence which leads to what?
(a) Hangings.
(b) Arrests.
(c) Beatings.
(d) Escape.
3. What are the philosophical words mentioned in “Eulogy”?
(a) We must speak not only of great devastation.
(b) To love is to live.
(c) To live is to love.
(d) We must always have hope.
4. 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) The wind.
(b) God.
(c) A rat.
(d) A ghost.
5. 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 balcony.
(c) Binoculars.
(d) A window.
6. When Alfonso talks to himself, for what does he long?
(a) His wife’s voice.
(b) A new life.
(c) Silence.
(d) Sedation.
7. 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) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.
8. What do girls and boys do to the soldier?
(a) They spit at him.
(b) They hit him.
(c) They dance with him.
(d) They spray water on him.
9. What does the speaker say is the best education during wartime?
(a) Bootcamp.
(b) Math, science, and language.
(c) To keep one's mouth shut and eyes open.
(d) How to open the door and walk through.
10. 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 burn down the town.
(c) They want to purchase rifles.
(d) They want to form a militia.
11. 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.
12. In “Momma Galya First Protested,” Momma Galya smokes a cigarette and shouts to the soldiers to do what?
(a) Go home to their wives.
(b) Cheer on her girls.
(c) Pay up.
(d) Come inside.
13. Alfonso and three-day old Anushka come home to their apartment where they find what?
(a) Mama Galya.
(b) No food or heat.
(c) More soldiers.
(d) The dirty snow from Sonya’s boots is still on the floor.
14. What do the boys pay Alfonso for killing the soldier?
(a) A loaf of bread.
(b) A box of oranges.
(c) Fifty rubles.
(d) A jar of milk.
15. In “Galya’s Toast,” what does Galya NOT toast?
(a) The four dimensions of breathing.
(b) Your voice.
(c) The twenty-six bones of one foot.
(d) The wonders of the mind.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Alfonso kill the soldier?
2. How is Alfonso put to death?
3. What does Momma Galya want her neighbors to come see, regarding Anushka?
4. To what does the speaker compare the tossing of Alfonso on the sidewalk?
5. Galya says she is not deaf but has told the world to do what?
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