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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. Alfonso and three-day old Anushka come home to their apartment where they find what?
(a) Mama Galya.
(b) More soldiers.
(c) The dirty snow from Sonya’s boots is still on the floor.
(d) No food or heat.

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

3. The soldiers initially go to her theater to arrest Galya but then do what?
(a) Come back every night.
(b) Arrest other puppeteers instead.
(c) Disappear.
(d) Never return to the theater.

4. The townspeople want to leave their funerals and help Momma Galya drop off what in the mailboxes of those who have been arrested?
(a) Letters.
(b) Bouquets of flowers.
(c) Envelopes of money.
(d) Loaves of bread.

5. How is Alfonso put to death?
(a) By lethal injection.
(b) By the guillotine.
(c) By hanging.
(d) By firing squad.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “Momma Galya First Protested,” Momma Galya smokes a cigarette and shouts to the soldiers to do what?

2. Who gives the signal to attack the soldier?

3. What does the sign say that is hanging around the neck of a drunk soldier?

4. In “Elegy,” how many words does Alfonso pray?

5. What do Mama Galya and her puppeteers do at Sonya’s funeral?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What details are given about Anushka at her mother’s funeral?

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

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

7. In “A Bundle of Laundry,” what has happened to Anushka?

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

9. What do the townspeople try not to notice about Momma Galya?

10. In “In Bombardment, Galya,” what does Galya manage to survive?

(see the answer keys)

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