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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. 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) A rat.
(b) A ghost.
(c) God.
(d) The wind.

2. How is Alfonso put to death?
(a) By the guillotine.
(b) By hanging.
(c) By lethal injection.
(d) By firing squad.

3. How do the puppeteers kill the soldiers?
(a) They strangle them with puppet strings.
(b) They push them off the balcony.
(c) They poison them.
(d) They shoot them.

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

5. What does Momma Galya want her neighbors to come see, regarding Anushka?
(a) Anushka just learned how to walk.
(b) Anushka just said her first word.
(c) Anushka called her, "Momma."
(d) Anushka just pooped on the park bench.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the speaker asks God why he allowed such an act, what is God’s response?

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

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

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

5. What is Anushka wrapped up in at her mother’s funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the townspeople behave in “The Townspeople Watch Them Take Alfonso”?

2. What education does the speaker say Momma Galya gives?

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

4. What do the beautiful women of Vasenka do?

5. What is used as a distraction, so Momma Galya can save Anushka from where she is being held by the army?

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

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 do the townspeople try not to notice about Momma Galya?

9. How is the soldier treated prior to being killed?

10. During the day, Galya, riding her green bicycle, does what to the checkpoints?

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