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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What musician does the bartender put on the jukebox while Natalia waits for word from the clinic in Zdrevkov in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) Michael Jackson.
(b) John Lennon.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Paul McCartney.

2. 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) Bis.
(c) Nada Ivan.
(d) Fra Antun.

3. During the war, Natalia describes a prominent engineer and his family surviving off the carcass of what escaped zoo animal in Chapter 4: "The Tiger"?
(a) A lion.
(b) A zebra.
(c) A crocodile.
(d) A bear.

4. 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) Pediatric surgery.
(b) Facial reconstruction.
(c) Gynecology.
(d) Neurology.

5. What animal that was rescued from a circus does Natalia's grandfather take her to see at midnight when she is sixteen in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) A cobra.
(b) A sea turtle.
(c) An elephant.
(d) A chimpanzee.

6. What season is it when Natalia describes her earliest memory of going to the zoo with her grandfather in the Prologue?
(a) Summer.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Winter.
(d) Spring.

7. 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) Marhan.
(b) Zvocana.
(c) Rajkovac.
(d) Carton City.

8. 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 roof.
(b) The older students are moved to the upper floors.
(c) The younger students are moved to the upper floors.
(d) The school rooms are all moved to the basement.

9. 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?
(a) The Great Branko.
(b) The Magical and Extraordinary Dubi.
(c) The Masterful Ori.
(d) The Magnificent Fedrizzi.

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

11. What is written on the plaque of the clinic in Zdrevkov in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) Orphanage.
(b) Bless those under this roof.
(c) Veteran's Center.
(d) Free Clinic.

12. When Natalia's grandfather was shown the scans by his friend at the Military Academy of Medicine that indicated his illness, he had said, "You go looking for a gnat and you find" what?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A gaping hole.
(c) A donkey.
(d) A dragon.

13. In Chapter 1: "The Coast," the narrator says that "to welcome the newly loosed spirit [of the dead], the living will not clean, will not wash or tidy, will not remove the soul’s belongings for" how many days?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 40.

14. Who gave Natalia's grandfather his cherished copy of The Jungle Book?
(a) The tiger's wife.
(b) The zookeeper.
(c) The butcher.
(d) The apothecary.

15. 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?
(a) Dobravka's restaurant.
(b) Banevic's restaurant.
(c) Lazlo's restaurant.
(d) Srdjan's restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For how long does Natalia spend time with Ori before he disappears in Chapter 2: "The War"?

3. By what name does Natalia refer to the "obese technical student... who prepared cadavers" at the medical school in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?

4. Where does the woman from the clinic tell Natalia that Dejana is currently when she calls from the bar in Zdrevkov in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?

5. What is the name of the digger's son that Natalia tries to get sent home from the site because he has fever in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?

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