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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the girls steal during all the commotion?
2. The speaker considers Galya what, as she flies around on her bicycle in a pair of shorts with seemingly little care for the current regime or laws?
3. What are the philosophical words mentioned in “Eulogy”?
4. What is Anushka wrapped up in at her mother’s funeral?
5. During the day, Galya, riding her green bicycle, throws what at military checkpoints?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the townspeople try not to notice about Momma Galya?
2. How is Alfonso treated by the townspeople in “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”?
3. In “A Bundle of Laundry,” what has happened to Anushka?
4. What do the beautiful women of Vasenka do?
5. What payment does Alfonso receive for killing the soldier?
6. What education does the speaker say Momma Galya gives?
7. What takes place right before and after the killing of the soldier?
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 is used as a distraction, so Momma Galya can save Anushka from where she is being held by the army?
10. In “In Bombardment, Galya,” what does Galya manage to survive?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The first person shot and killed is a young deaf boy. What leads to his death? Why might he have acted this way? Do you see this as brave or foolish? Why or why not? Might he have realized the repercussions of his actions? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Time and again the invading army knows how to put the townspeople in their place. What tactics do they use to keep the people from revolting? How do these tactics impact the main characters? How does this behavior educate the reader on how invading armies have succeeded in real-life situations to terrorize whole communities and countries?
Essay Topic 3
The collection of poetry begins and ends with poems about the U.S. What is the subject matter of these poems? What is the purpose of the poems? How do they relate to the rest of the poems? Why might the poet have chosen to have them as bookends for his collection?
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