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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 mountain is described by the dig site in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?
(a) Mount Albula.
(b) Mount Brejevina.
(c) Mount Kreuzeck.
(d) Mount Vesuvius.

2. In what month does Natalia say she walked out with the nurses on strike in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) June.
(b) September.
(c) January.
(d) March.

3. How long ago does Natalia say she was with her grandfather when he discovered his illness at the Military Academy of Medicine in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) 2 years ago.
(b) 3 weeks ago.
(c) 6 months ago.
(d) 3 months ago.

4. 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) 18.
(b) 10.
(c) 16.
(d) 13.

5. How old are the two boys that appear sick and are working along with the diggers in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?
(a) About fourteen.
(b) About six.
(c) About thirteen.
(d) About nine.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. 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"?

4. 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"?

5. What location does Natalia describe in Chapter 2: "The War" as "where the gypsies lived, with its wet paper walls, the black smoke of its dungfires"?

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