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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: “The Heart” and Chapter 9: “The Bear”.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Darisa's father die in Chapter 9: "The Bear"?
(a) He is in a car accident.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He hangs himself.
(d) He is killed in a landmine.

3. What age does Natalia say she was when took a dive off her bicycle and "bawled through half an hour of treatment via rakija-soaked cloth" to her knees, in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

4. Where does Natalia describe a college student firebombing a zoo concession stand in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) Brejevina.
(b) Vojvodja.
(c) Zobov.
(d) Zdrevkov.

5. What intern does Natalia's grandfather describe as a "brilliant little Hungarian fellow who has paid a lot of money to study at our University, and who doesn’t speak a word of the language" in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) Hassan Effendi.
(b) M. Dobravka.
(c) Bogdan Dankov.
(d) Dominic Lazlo.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Natalia says in Chapter 6: "The Fire" that her family had spent every summer at their summer lake house until she was how old?

3. What does Dure use as a "metaphorical heart" in the ritual in Chapter 8: "The Heart"?

4. Natalia's grandfather tells her in Chapter 6: "The Fire," "When men die, they die in fear. They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living—in" what?

5. What was the name of Luka's mother?

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