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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the boys do before the attack on the soldier takes place?
(a) They cheer for Alfonso.
(b) They hide.
(c) They dance in the streets.
(d) They cross themselves.

2. In “Soldiers Don’t Like Looking Foolish,” whose names are posted on the wall?
(a) The names of those arrested.
(b) The names of all the puppeteers.
(c) The leaders of Vasenka.
(d) The names of those who were murdered.

3. What do girls and boys do to the soldier?
(a) They dance with him.
(b) They spit at him.
(c) They spray water on him.
(d) They hit him.

4. What Alfonso cannot believe about his door-slamming wife?
(a) She is gone.
(b) She betrayed him.
(c) She allowed them to kill her.
(d) She is in hiding somewhere.

5. In “In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky,” Alfonso asks if he is seeing what?
(a) The little light.
(b) The little soul.
(c) The little angel.
(d) The little baby.

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

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

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

9. Why does Alfonso kill the soldier?
(a) He does not think the boys know how to kill a man.
(b) He wants revenge.
(c) He is insane.
(d) He wants to die.

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

11. In “Elegy,” how many words does Alfonso pray?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

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

13. How does Alfonso kill the soldier?
(a) He beats him up.
(b) He shoots him.
(c) He strangles him.
(d) He stabs him, puncturing his lung.

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

15. What are the little bundles in “The Little Bundles”?
(a) Loaves of bread wrapped up in cloth.
(b) Laundry.
(c) Galya and Anushka's belongings.
(d) Anushka’s hair as it is cut and falls onto her shoulders.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Galya Whispers, as Anushka Nuzzles,” Galya describes the posters of whom?

2. Galya asks God to bless what?

3. What does Alfonso down like a shot of vodka before killing the soldier?

4. What do two of Momma Galya’s puppeteers do in front of the checkpoint, to distract the soldiers?

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

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