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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The townspeople, who are the speakers, wish they could leave their funerals with Momma Galya in what vehicle?

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

3. In “Galya’s Toast,” what does Galya NOT toast?

4. What Alfonso cannot believe about his door-slamming wife?

5. What does Momma Galya say deafness really is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the beautiful women of Vasenka do?

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

3. How does Alfonso struggle with his wife’s death, based on what is said in “I, This Body”?

4. What is the eulogy given at Alfonso’s funeral?

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

6. How is Alfonso treated by the townspeople in “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”?

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

8. What do the townspeople try not to notice about Momma Galya?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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