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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to rescue Natalia and Zora when they are detained at the customs border in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) Zora's grandfather.
(b) Natalia's mother.
(c) Zora's father.
(d) Natalia's grandfather.

2. By what name does Natalia call her grandmother when they speak on the phone in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) Bako.
(b) Kutzi.
(c) Mame.
(d) Mima.

3. 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"?
(a) Dure.
(b) Marko.
(c) Dubi.
(d) Branko.

4. Natalia and Zora's skull replicas are taken by customs at the border by what river valley in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) The Veleka River Valley.
(b) The Buzau River Valley.
(c) The Nile River Valley.
(d) The Grava River Valley.

5. 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 months ago.
(c) 2 years ago.
(d) 3 weeks ago.

6. What word from Chapter 6: "The Fire" refers to patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship?
(a) Nepotism.
(b) Hedonism.
(c) Paternalism.
(d) Naturalism.

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

8. What is the name of the digger that is described as a welder to Natalia in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?
(a) Marko.
(b) Branko.
(c) Dubi.
(d) Ori.

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

10. 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"?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Italy.
(c) Israel.
(d) France.

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

12. What is the name of the digger that Natalia follows at the dig site and speaks with in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?
(a) Ori.
(b) Branko.
(c) Dominic.
(d) Dure.

13. 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) Brejevina.
(d) Zdrevkov.

14. Natalia says in Chapter 6: "The Fire" that her family had spent every summer at their summer lake house until she was how old?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 18.

15. 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 dragon.
(c) A gaping hole.
(d) A donkey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who gave Natalia's grandfather his cherished copy of The Jungle Book?

3. 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"?

4. How old are the two boys that appear sick and are working along with the diggers in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?

5. 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?

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