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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 Barba Ivan's wife in the novel?
(a) Nada.
(b) Lidia.
(c) Amana.
(d) Magdalena.

2. 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) 1946.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1918.

3. 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"?
(a) Zdrevkov.
(b) Vojvodja.
(c) Marhan.
(d) Zobov.

4. What is the name of the digger that Natalia follows at the dig site and speaks with in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?
(a) Ori.
(b) Dure.
(c) Branko.
(d) Dominic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does Natalia say she walked out with the nurses on strike in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?

2. 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"?

3. What season is it when Natalia describes her earliest memory of going to the zoo with her grandfather in the Prologue?

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. Natalia says in Chapter 2: "The War" that by the time she was what age, "the ritual of the tigers had become an annoyance"?

(see the answer key)

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