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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the town butcher in Galina in Chapter 4: "The Tiger"?
(a) Dure.
(b) Branko.
(c) Luka.
(d) Marko.

2. What kind of animal is Bis?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A cat.
(c) A dog.
(d) A tiger.

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) 6 months ago.
(b) 3 weeks ago.
(c) 2 years ago.
(d) 3 months ago.

4. Who is the man that specializes in producing plastic replicas of human parts and sells them on the black market to dentists, orthopedists, and surgeons during the trade embargo in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) Dominic Lazlo.
(b) Tamsin.
(c) Luka.
(d) Avgustin.

5. During wartime, how are the students' classrooms rearranged at Natalia's school in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) The school rooms are all moved to the basement.
(b) The school rooms are all moved to the roof.
(c) The younger students are moved to the upper floors.
(d) The older students are moved to the upper floors.

6. Who are the many portraits of that line the monastery and are found throughout the village in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) Barba Ivan.
(b) Nada Ivan.
(c) Fra Antun.
(d) Bis.

7. What is the name of the neighbor to Natalia's family's summer lake home in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) Avgustin.
(b) Slavko.
(c) Luka.
(d) Branko.

8. What river is described by the citadel where the tiger was caged in Chapter 4: "The Tiger"?
(a) The Nile River.
(b) The Volga River.
(c) The Danube River.
(d) The Colorado River.

9. 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"?
(a) 30.
(b) 75.
(c) 60.
(d) 40.

10. 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"?
(a) Carton City.
(b) Vojvodja.
(c) Zdrevkov.
(d) Marhan.

11. What contraband "gift" does Natalia's teacher bring to the class to dissect in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) A pig fetus.
(b) A heart.
(c) A bullfrog.
(d) A pair of lungs.

12. What is the name of the turtle that Frau Antun asks Natalia and Zora if they've met yet at the orphanage in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) Tamsin.
(b) Marko.
(c) Ori.
(d) Luka.

13. Who does Zora insult in her first year of medical school by saying to him, "Don't be so fucking provincial," according to the narrator in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) Mika the Cleaver.
(b) The Dean of the University.
(c) The Chair of Genetics.
(d) The President of the University.

14. Who is the Franciscan monk that runs the monastery and is Natalia and Zora's contact in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) Fra Antun.
(b) Dominic Lazlo.
(c) Fra Parso.
(d) Barba Ivan.

15. What is the name of the boy that is raised by wolves in The Jungle Book?
(a) Mowgli.
(b) Kaa.
(c) Ori.
(d) Kotik.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lake Verimovo is described in Chapter 6: "The Fire" as being fed by what river?

2. What is the name of the digger that Natalia follows at the dig site and speaks with in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?

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"?

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 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"?

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