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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Natalia says in Chapter 2: "The War" that six months into the war, her friend Zora develops a taste for cigarettes from what country?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Spain.
(d) Iran.

2. During wartime, how are the students' classrooms rearranged at Natalia's school in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) The school rooms are all moved to the roof.
(b) The school rooms are all moved to the basement.
(c) The older students are moved to the upper floors.
(d) The younger students are moved to the upper floors.

3. Where does Natalia's grandmother tell her that the funeral will be for Natalia's grandfather in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) Verimovo.
(b) Strmina.
(c) Zobov.
(d) Zdrevkov.

4. What book does Natalia describe as always being in her grandfather's breast pocket in the Prologue?
(a) Aesop's Fables.
(b) The Stranger.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) The Jungle Book.

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

6. Where does Natalia describe a college student firebombing a zoo concession stand in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) Zobov.
(b) Vojvodja.
(c) Zdrevkov.
(d) Brejevina.

7. What is the name of the twenty-one-year-old self-proclaimed gun-runner that Zora begins dating when she is fifteen in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) Branko.
(b) Dure.
(c) Marko.
(d) Dubi.

8. What does Natalia respond when her grandfather asks what she might specialize in when she is in medical school in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) Facial reconstruction.
(b) Neurology.
(c) Pediatric surgery.
(d) Gynecology.

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

10. Where does Fra Antun say the teenage boys were coming home from when they were killed by a land mine in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) Rajkovac.
(b) Zvocana.
(c) Carton City.
(d) Marhan.

11. Who is the Franciscan monk that runs the monastery and is Natalia and Zora's contact in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) Dominic Lazlo.
(b) Barba Ivan.
(c) Fra Parso.
(d) Fra Antun.

12. Where does Natalia describe her grandfather's summer lake house in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) Zvocana.
(b) Zdrevkov.
(c) Zobov.
(d) Verimovo.

13. What does Natalia say caused the fire in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) A lynch mob.
(b) A lightning strike.
(c) An arsonist carrying gasoline.
(d) A drunkard with a cigarette.

14. Who gave Natalia's grandfather his cherished copy of The Jungle Book?
(a) The apothecary.
(b) The butcher.
(c) The tiger's wife.
(d) The zookeeper.

15. 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?
(a) 40.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children are supposedly being housed at the monastery in Brejevina that is intended to accommodate twenty monks, according to the narrator in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?

2. What is the name of the digger's son that Natalia tries to get sent home from the site because he has fever in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?

3. What river is described by the citadel where the tiger was caged in Chapter 4: "The Tiger"?

4. What location does Natalia describe in Chapter 2: "The War" as "where the gypsies lived, with its wet paper walls, the black smoke of its dungfires"?

5. What is the name of the turtle that Frau Antun asks Natalia and Zora if they've met yet at the orphanage in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?

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