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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. In “Galya Whispers, as Anushka Nuzzles,” Galya describes the posters of whom?
(a) Her theater.
(b) The famous dictator.
(c) God.
(d) The local government official.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “I, This Body,” begins with Alfonso being held up at Sonya’s funeral only by what?

3. What does Alfonso down like a shot of vodka before killing the soldier?

4. How "Soldiers Don't Like Looking Foolish" end?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What payment does Alfonso receive for killing the soldier?

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

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