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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: “The Apothecary”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The digger that Natalia talks with in Chapter 3: "The Diggers" tells her that he has a cousin buried in the dig site. How long does he say he's been buried there?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 16 years.
(d) 50 years.

2. 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"?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A chimpanzee.
(c) A cobra.
(d) A sea turtle.

3. The skull replicas that Natalia and Zora travel to buy on the black market during medical school are described as replicas of a magician from the 1940s named what?
(a) The Masterful Ori.
(b) The Great Branko.
(c) The Magical and Extraordinary Dubi.
(d) The Magnificent Fedrizzi.

4. What was the name of Darisa the Bear's sister who had a lifelong illness?
(a) Amana.
(b) Magdalena.
(c) Lidia.
(d) Nada.

5. What kind of Balkan brandy is described as sitting about on the floor of Barba Ivan's home in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?
(a) Schnapps.
(b) Rakija.
(c) Krambambula.
(d) Fernet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the monk's father that hosts Natalia and Zora in his and his wife's home in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?

2. Who was the Turkish captain that sabered the young apothecary and almost impaled him in the narrator's story from Chapter 12: "The Apothecary"?

3. What musician does the bartender put on the jukebox while Natalia waits for word from the clinic in Zdrevkov in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?

4. 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"?

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 9: "The Bear," Darisa the Bear came to Galina once every year, right after what holiday?

(see the answer key)

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