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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 “A Bundle of Laundry,” where is Anushka crying?
(a) Inside the backroom of the checkpoint.
(b) In the arms of a soldier.
(c) In a laundry basket.
(d) In a crib in an orphanage.

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

3. Why does Alfonso kill the soldier?
(a) He is insane.
(b) He does not think the boys know how to kill a man.
(c) He wants to die.
(d) He wants revenge.

4. What do the townspeople try not to notice about Momma Galya?
(a) Her weight.
(b) Her face.
(c) Her nipples.
(d) Her personality.

5. What are the little bundles in “The Little Bundles”?
(a) Loaves of bread wrapped up in cloth.
(b) Anushka’s hair as it is cut and falls onto her shoulders.
(c) Galya and Anushka's belongings.
(d) Laundry.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In “Question,” the speaker asks what a man is and responds how?

4. How do the puppeteers kill the soldiers?

5. In “Galya’s Puppeteers,” one of Galya’s puppeteers does what to Ivanoff before killing him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In “Galya’s Toast,” what does Galya toast?

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

4. What do the beautiful women of Vasenka do?

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

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

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

8. When and how is Momma Galya compared to the wind?

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

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

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