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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Kenan's section in Chapter One comes to an end once he has taken what action?
2. Which members of Dragan's family was he able to get out of Sarajevo before the siege began?
3. What term does Arrow use to describe herself when she is performing effectively in her role as a sniper?
4. How long has it been since Kenan and his family have had reliable electricity?
5. Everything is said to now cost how many times as much as it had before the onset of the siege?
Short Essay Questions
1. On what factor does Dragan base his decision to cross the street the first time he leaves Emina's side after they run into one another?
2. What is the significance of Albinoni’s adagio from the cellist’s perspective and why?
3. What does Dragan do for a living and what is his family situation?
4. Discuss the meaning of the Leon Trotsky quote Galloway includes as an epigraph.
5. What is the significance of the 1984 Olympics according to Dragan?
6. Toward what location is Dragan traveling in his introductory session in Chapter One and for what purpose?
7. In what way does Galloway use word choice to suggest the anxiety Kenan feels as he walks through his devastated city?
8. Who is Nermin Filipovic?
9. What situation is Dragan in when the reader rejoins him in Chapter Two?
10. What is Bascarsija and what is Galloway's purpose for alluding to it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Galloway’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of The Cellist of Sarajevo.
Essay Topic 2
What ultimate message is Galloway sending about the nature and value of compassion?
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Galloway’s novel The Cellist of Sarajevo. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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