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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. In “What Are Days,” the speaker compares the days of May to whom?
(a) Young men.
(b) Old women.
(c) Middle-aged men.
(d) Children.

2. In “Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air,” the speaker says that the story is of those who danced how before God?
(a) Fearless.
(b) Wordless.
(c) Willingly.
(d) Joyfully.

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

4. In “Galya’s Puppeteers,” one of Galya’s puppeteers does what to Ivanoff before killing him?
(a) Embarasses him.
(b) Tortures him.
(c) Gives him sexual favors.
(d) Feeds him.

5. In “Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle,” what does it say Momma Galya Armolinskaya has more of than anyone else in town?
(a) Sex.
(b) Enemies.
(c) Friends.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Momma Galya?

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

3. The speaker says that those who make love may borrow the light from who?

4. Galya compares her body to what, so that God can watch the small child pulling up on a chair and Galya’s neighbors get arrested?

5. What does Alfonso do to entertain his daughter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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