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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: “The Butcher”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does Natalia's grandfather say he met Natalia's grandmother in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1955.

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

3. What is the name of the digger that is described as a welder to Natalia in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?
(a) Marko.
(b) Ori.
(c) Dubi.
(d) Branko.

4. Natalia describes Barba Ivan as how old "if he was a day" in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) Ninety years old.
(b) Eighty years old.
(c) Sixty years old.
(d) Seventy years old.

5. What was the name of Luka's mother?
(a) Barba.
(b) Zora.
(c) Nada.
(d) Lidia.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does Natalia refer to the "obese technical student... who prepared cadavers" at the medical school in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?

2. What word from Chapter 6: "The Fire" refers to patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship?

3. What age does Natalia say she was when took a dive off her bicycle and "bawled through half an hour of treatment via rakija-soaked cloth" to her knees, in Chapter 2: "The War"?

4. The narrator in Chapter 6: "The Fire" describes the City's greatest doctors convening on the patio of what restaurant in Old Town every Sunday afternoon, even during the war?

5. 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"?

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