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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: “The Fire”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6: "The Fire" refers to doctors who specialize in working on the kidney?
(a) Cardiologists.
(b) Oncologist.
(c) Nephrologists.
(d) Neurologists.

2. What does Natalia respond when her grandfather asks what she might specialize in when she is in medical school in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) Gynecology.
(b) Neurology.
(c) Facial reconstruction.
(d) Pediatric surgery.

3. 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.

4. Because of walking out with the nurses on strike, Natalia says that she was given an indefinite suspension from the clinic where in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) Brejevina.
(b) Verimovo.
(c) Vojvodja.
(d) Zdrevkov.

5. How long ago does Barba Ivan say the diggers arrived on his doorstep in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) A week ago.
(b) A year ago.
(c) Two weeks ago.
(d) A month ago.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of Balkan brandy is described as sitting about on the floor of Barba Ivan's home in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?

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?

4. 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"?

5. The narrator in Chapter 6: "The Fire" describes the City's greatest doctors convening on the patio of what restaurant in Old Town every Sunday afternoon, even during the war?

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