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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. What is the profession of the character named Ismira Sidran?
(a) Fashion designer.
(b) Photographer.
(c) Actress.
(d) Theater director.

2. Dragan is making his way toward what type of location, where he has worked for 40 years?
(a) A bakery.
(b) A library.
(c) A butcher.
(d) A zoo.

3. The narrator states that people who have the means to leave, and choose to do so, are viewed by their fellow Sarajevans in what way?
(a) As saviors.
(b) As cowards.
(c) As intellectuals.
(d) As enemies.

4. How old is Arrow at the time of the narrative's events?
(a) 38.
(b) 18.
(c) 28.
(d) 19.

5. Arrow wonders about the absence of which emotion within herself after she kills one of the men on the hills?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Relief.

Short Answer Questions

1. The men on the hills who are waging the Siege of Sarajevo are encamped at Vraca, an elevated what?

2. Arrow's first section in Chapter Two names an apartment on which floor as the one where the sniper plans to shoot the cellist?

3. What type of material is covering Arrow's legs as she is lying face-down next to a window?

4. Kenan thinks of which form of transportation as being symbolic of civilization?

5. The sound of what type of weapon interrupts Kenan's reverie about Veliki Park?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the tram symbolize in Kenan's memory of the siege's first day?

2. For what reason does the cellist need protection and from whom?

3. Who is Mrs. Ristovski?

4. What situation is Dragan in when the reader rejoins him in Chapter Two?

5. Who is Emina and why would Dragan rather avoid her?

6. Discuss the meaning of the Leon Trotsky quote Galloway includes as an epigraph.

7. Discuss an instance when Galloway uses the sound motif in Chapter Two.

8. Describe Arrow’s path to becoming a sniper working to defend Sarajevo against the siege.

9. What task must Kenan undertake every four days throughout the siege and why?

10. In what way does Galloway use word choice to suggest the anxiety Kenan feels as he walks through his devastated city?

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