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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: “The River” and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what name does Natalia refer to the "obese technical student... who prepared cadavers" at the medical school in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) M. Dobravka.
(b) Dure the Doctor.
(c) Mica the Cleaver.
(d) Dr. Srdjan.

2. What word does Fra Antun use to describe a haunt or "a spirit" in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) A holluschick.
(b) A kotik.
(c) A mora.
(d) A hajduk.

3. Natalia describes Barba Ivan as how old "if he was a day" in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) Sixty years old.
(b) Eighty years old.
(c) Seventy years old.
(d) Ninety years old.

4. Where does the tiger find himself at an abandoned market "two blocks up from where my grandfather and my grandma would buy their first apartment fifteen years later," according to Natalia in Chapter 4: "The Tiger"?
(a) Marhan.
(b) Kalina.
(c) Zdrevkov.
(d) Brejevina.

5. Where does Fra Antun say the teenage boys were coming home from when they were killed by a land mine in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) Zvocana.
(b) Carton City.
(c) Marhan.
(d) Rajkovac.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Turkish captain that sabered the young apothecary and almost impaled him in the narrator's story from Chapter 12: "The Apothecary"?

2. What is the name of the town where Natalia's grandfather has died in the beginning of the novel?

3. Where was Natalia's mother raised?

4. Natalia describes a huge tree outside her grandfather's village on the bank of a stream that leads down from what river in Chapter 12: "The Apothecary"?

5. Who is the Franciscan monk that runs the monastery and is Natalia and Zora's contact in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?

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