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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gives the signal to attack the soldier?
(a) The girls.
(b) Mama Galya.
(c) The boys.
(d) Alfonso.

2. How do the young men of Vasenka want to take revenge on the men who killed Sonya?
(a) They want to form a militia.
(b) They want to perform a public killing of one of the soldiers.
(c) They want to purchase rifles.
(d) They want to burn down the town.

3. Galya says she traveled in her life as close to what as she dared to go?
(a) Hell.
(b) Murder.
(c) Danger.
(d) God.

4. 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?
(a) The kindest woman in the country.
(b) The wildest woman in the country.
(c) The craziest woman in the country.
(d) The luckiest woman in the country.

5. In “In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky,” Alfonso asks if he is seeing what?
(a) The little light.
(b) The little angel.
(c) The little soul.
(d) The little baby.

6. In “And While Puppeteers Are Arrested,” there is silence which leads to what?
(a) Arrests.
(b) Beatings.
(c) Hangings.
(d) Escape.

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

8. What group of people has been arrested following the murder of the soldiers by the puppeteers?
(a) All the puppeteers.
(b) All the women of Vasenka.
(c) All the women on Tedna Street.
(d) All the men on Tedna Street.

9. How old is Momma Galya?
(a) 33.
(b) 53.
(c) 43.
(d) 63.

10. In “Galya’s Toast,” what does Galya NOT toast?
(a) The twenty-six bones of one foot.
(b) Your voice.
(c) The wonders of the mind.
(d) The four dimensions of breathing.

11. During the day, Galya, riding her green bicycle, throws what at military checkpoints?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Bombs.
(c) Empty milk bottles.
(d) Homemade explosive devices.

12. In “Elegy,” how many words does Alfonso pray?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

13. The speaker in “Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air” asks that they be allowed to wash their faces in what?
(a) The wind.
(b) The earth.
(c) The river.
(d) The water.

14. What does Momma Galya say deafness really is?
(a) A sexual position.
(b) A joke.
(c) A disease.
(d) A falsity.

15. How do the soldiers torture Alfonso?
(a) They put him in the stocks.
(b) With a fire hose.
(c) They bind his hands together.
(d) They hang a sign around his neck and parade him naked through the streets.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What of Sonya’s does Alfonso put on after her death?

3. How does Momma Galya react to reading the names posted on the wall?

4. How do the puppeteers kill the soldiers?

5. To what does the speaker compare the tossing of Alfonso on the sidewalk?

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