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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. How is Alfonso put to death?
(a) By the guillotine.
(b) By hanging.
(c) By lethal injection.
(d) By firing squad.
2. In “In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky,” why does Alfonso sometimes light a lamp?
(a) So he can feel warmth.
(b) To cheer himself up.
(c) So he can see.
(d) So he cannot see.
3. What of Sonya’s does Alfonso put on after her death?
(a) Her shawl.
(b) One of her dresses.
(c) Her nightgown.
(d) Her red socks.
4. 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?
(a) Wordless.
(b) Fearless.
(c) Joyfully.
(d) Willingly.
5. Punishment for the murder of the soldiers by the puppeteers has led to what?
(a) The theater being shut down.
(b) Hangings each day.
(c) A new shop being bombed each morning.
(d) All public gatherings have been banned.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. Alfonso and three-day old Anushka come home to their apartment where they find what?
3. The speaker says that Alfonso played the accordion out of tune where the only musical instrument of his country is what?
4. What does Momma Galya do on stage, as the lights grow dim?
5. Galya asks God to bless what?
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. During the day, Galya, riding her green bicycle, does what to the checkpoints?
4. How do the townspeople behave in “The Townspeople Watch Them Take Alfonso”?
5. What is the eulogy given at Alfonso’s funeral?
6. Why does the speaker consider Momma Galya the luckiest woman in the country?
7. What do the townspeople try not to notice about Momma Galya?
8. What payment does Alfonso receive for killing the soldier?
9. In “In Bombardment, Galya,” what does Galya manage to survive?
10. What takes place right before and after the killing of the soldier?
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