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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. What is the name of the twenty-one-year-old self-proclaimed gun-runner that Zora begins dating when she is fifteen in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) Marko.
(b) Branko.
(c) Dubi.
(d) Dure.

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

3. 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?
(a) 40.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 30.

4. What is the name of the midwife that took in Natalia's grandfather when he was orphaned as a child?
(a) Fra Antun.
(b) Nada Ivan.
(c) M. Dobravka.
(d) Mother Vera.

5. Natalia says in Chapter 2: "The War" that by the time she was what age, "the ritual of the tigers had become an annoyance"?
(a) 16.
(b) 13.
(c) 18.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What river is described by the citadel where the tiger was caged in Chapter 4: "The Tiger"?

2. During wartime, how are the students' classrooms rearranged at Natalia's school in Chapter 2: "The War"?

3. How old does Natalia describe herself in her earliest memory of going to the zoo with her grandfather in the novel's Prologue?

4. What contraband "gift" does Natalia's teacher bring to the class to dissect in Chapter 2: "The War"?

5. Where did the Administration take out the airplane factory and airstrip six months before the war broke out, according to Natalia in Chapter 2: "The War"?

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