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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle - Soldiers Don't Like Looking Foolish.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Momma Galya do on stage, as the lights grow dim?
(a) She speaks to the crowd.
(b) She sings.
(c) She lights a match.
(d) She dances.

2. What do the townspeople do in “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck” in response to the killing of the soldier?
(a) They are silent.
(b) They cheer and pat Alfonso’s back.
(c) They try to hide Alfonso.
(d) They scream and cry in agony and fear.

3. Alfonso says that a bathtub, infant, and marriage bed are what?
(a) His world.
(b) His loves.
(c) His country.
(d) His home.

4. What do the townspeople do when soldiers arrive back in the square to take Petya’s body?
(a) They give the soldier's Petya's body.
(b) They charge the soldiers.
(c) They run and hide.
(d) They encircle Sonya, Alfonso, and the Petya with their arms locked together.

5. How does Momma Galya react to reading the names posted on the wall?
(a) She cries as she reads the list of names.
(b) She only reads a few before she stops and walks away.
(c) Her finger trembles as she drags it down the list of names.
(d) She cheers as she reads the list.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the soldiers torture Alfonso?

2. As Petya’s body lies on the asphalt, what does Alfonso wonder?

3. What does the poet say about parenting, based on the actions of Momma Galya?

4. Alfonso says that who have something to tell that not even they can hear?

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

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