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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group of people has been arrested following the murder of the soldiers by the puppeteers?
(a) All the puppeteers.
(b) All the men on Tedna Street.
(c) All the women of Vasenka.
(d) All the women on Tedna Street.

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

3. What does the poet say about parenting, based on the actions of Momma Galya?
(a) Parenting is not for the weak.
(b) Parenting costs us a little dignity.
(c) Parenting is always beautiful.
(d) Parenting is not for everyone.

4. What do two of Momma Galya’s puppeteers do in front of the checkpoint, to distract the soldiers?
(a) They dance.
(b) They put on a puppet show.
(c) They get into a fight.
(d) They kiss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In “Momma Galya First Protested,” Momma Galya smokes a cigarette and shouts to the soldiers to do what?

3. No one stands up for Alfonso. What do they say?

4. Galya asks God to bless what?

5. Like young men, the days of May walk to prison wearing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Momma Galya react to seeing the names posted in “Soldiers Don’t Like Looking Foolish”?

2. What do the beautiful women of Vasenka do?

3. What are two things the speaker says in “Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air”?

4. In “I, This Body,” how does Alfonso explain how he manages to make it through his wife’s funeral?

5. In “Galya’s Toast,” what does Galya toast?

6. In “In Bombardment, Galya,” what does Galya manage to survive?

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

8. What details are given about Anushka at her mother’s funeral?

9. In “A Bundle of Laundry,” what has happened to Anushka?

10. What do the boys of Vasenka want to do because Sonya was murdered?

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