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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: “The Diggers” and Chapter 4: “The Tiger”.

Multiple Choice 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"?
(a) 40.
(b) 75.
(c) 30.
(d) 60.

2. What season is it when Natalia describes her earliest memory of going to the zoo with her grandfather in the Prologue?
(a) Winter.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

3. In what year does Natalia say "without declaration or warning, German bombs started falling on the city and did not stop for three days" in Chapter 4: "The Tiger"?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1946.

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

5. After her suspension, Natalia had gone back to volunteering for what organization at the suggestion of her grandfather in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) The University's United Clinics program.
(b) The NATO Health Initiative.
(c) The World Health Organization.
(d) The Jesuit Health Initiative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the digger that is described as a welder to Natalia in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?

2. How old is Ori when Natalia meets him in Chapter 2: "The War"?

3. What animal that was rescued from a circus does Natalia's grandfather take her to see at midnight when she is sixteen in Chapter 2: "The War"?

4. 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?

5. What is the name of Barba Ivan's wife in the novel?

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