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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. How old is Amila, Kenan's wife, though he admits she looks 50 because of the war?
2. What is the profession of the character named Ismira Sidran?
3. What job does Emina report Jovan to have recently acquired?
4. The sound of what type of weapon interrupts Kenan's reverie about Veliki Park?
5. On what day of the cellist's series does Arrow see him perform for the first time in the street?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Dragan do for a living and what is his family situation?
2. What is Sarajevo Roulette, according to Emina?
3. What task must Kenan undertake every four days throughout the siege and why?
4. Who is Nermin Filipovic?
5. Discuss an instance when Galloway uses the sound motif in Chapter Two.
6. In what way does Galloway use word choice to suggest the anxiety Kenan feels as he walks through his devastated city?
7. What is the significance of Albinoni’s adagio from the cellist’s perspective and why?
8. What does the reader learn about life in Sarajevo during the siege, in relation to electricity and water?
9. Describe Kenan’s family situation.
10. How does Arrow determine the location of the sniper tasked with killing the cellist?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze Galloway from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
Essay Topic 2
Examine Galloway’s use of characterization methods to portray himself within the narrative. What effects do these characterization methods have on the themes and messages inherent in The Cellist of Sarajevo?
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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