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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 townspeople, who are the speakers, wish they could leave their funerals with Momma Galya in what vehicle?
(a) A black limousine.
(b) A shiny carriage.
(c) A yellow taxi.
(d) A black hearse.

2. In “Momma Galya First Protested,” Momma Galya smokes a cigarette and shouts to the soldiers to do what?
(a) Go home to their wives.
(b) Cheer on her girls.
(c) Come inside.
(d) Pay up.

3. The speaker says that to live is more than just to love; one must also be what?
(a) A bit foolish.
(b) Willing to let go.
(c) Carefree.
(d) Willing to learn.

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

5. In “Soldiers Don’t Like Looking Foolish,” whose names are posted on the wall?
(a) The names of all the puppeteers.
(b) The leaders of Vasenka.
(c) The names of those arrested.
(d) The names of those who were murdered.

Short Answer Questions

1. No one stands up for Alfonso. What do they say?

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

3. How is Alfonso put to death?

4. 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?

5. The speaker says that Alfonso played the accordion out of tune where the only musical instrument of his country is what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do the beautiful women of Vasenka do?

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

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

9. How does Momma Galya react to seeing the names posted in “Soldiers Don’t Like Looking Foolish”?

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

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