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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: “The Crossroads” and Chapter 11: “The Bombing”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the tiger find himself at an abandoned market "two blocks up from where my grandfather and my grandma would buy their first apartment fifteen years later," according to Natalia in Chapter 4: "The Tiger"?
(a) Zdrevkov.
(b) Kalina.
(c) Brejevina.
(d) Marhan.

2. Zora argues with the Italian monk regarding what products that were brought to hand out to the older girls at the orphanage in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) Audio tapes.
(b) Contraceptives.
(c) Menstrual pads.
(d) Photographs.

3. What is the name of the town butcher in Galina in Chapter 4: "The Tiger"?
(a) Marko.
(b) Luka.
(c) Dure.
(d) Branko.

4. What does Natalia's mother teach at the University in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) Geology.
(b) Musical theory.
(c) Art history.
(d) Biology.

5. What is the name of Barba Ivan's wife in the novel?
(a) Nada.
(b) Amana.
(c) Lidia.
(d) Magdalena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of animals does Fra Antun say come to the crossroads and carry rabies when Natalia insists on staying in Chapter 10: "The Crossroads"?

2. Who accompanies Luka as he returns from the mountain carrying the fallen blacksmith's gun in the beginning of Chapter 7: "The Butcher"?

3. What contraband "gift" does Natalia's teacher bring to the class to dissect in Chapter 2: "The War"?

4. Natalia says in Chapter 6: "The Fire" that her family had spent every summer at their summer lake house until she was how old?

5. In Chapter 1: "The Coast," the narrator says that "to welcome the newly loosed spirit [of the dead], the living will not clean, will not wash or tidy, will not remove the soul’s belongings for" how many days?

(see the answer key)

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