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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 do Mama Galya and her puppeteers do at Sonya’s funeral?
(a) They give Sonya's eulogy.
(b) They shake Alfonso’s hand.
(c) They sing a song in Sonya's honor.
(d) They hug Alfonso.

2. In “In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky,” why does Alfonso sometimes light a lamp?
(a) So he can feel warmth.
(b) So he cannot see.
(c) To cheer himself up.
(d) So he can see.

3. 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?
(a) They cheer and pat Alfonso’s back.
(b) They try to hide Alfonso.
(c) They are silent.
(d) They scream and cry in agony and fear.

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

5. How does Momma Galya react to reading the names posted on the wall?
(a) She cheers as she reads the list.
(b) She only reads a few before she stops and walks away.
(c) Her finger trembles as she drags it down the list of names.
(d) She cries as she reads the list of names.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do girls and boys do to the soldier?

2. When Alfonso talks to himself, for what does he long?

3. What of Sonya’s does Alfonso put on after her death?

4. What group of people has been arrested following the murder of the soldiers by the puppeteers?

5. In “In Bombardment, Galya,” how many consecutive days of aerial attacks has Vasenka suffered?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alfonso try to make life fun for his daughter?

2. Why does the speaker consider Momma Galya the luckiest woman in the country?

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

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

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

6. The townspeople, who are the speakers, wish they could leave their funerals with Momma Galya and do what?

7. What takes place right before and after the killing of the soldier?

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

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

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

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