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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Natalia realizes as the follows the man from the crossroads that he must be headed to a village that who had told her about in Chapter 13: "The River"?
(a) Dure.
(b) Branko.
(c) Fra Antun.
(d) Ori.

2. What was the name of Luka's mother?
(a) Barba.
(b) Zora.
(c) Nada.
(d) Lidia.

3. Where does Fra Antun describe Arlo going camping in the year before the war with several boys in Chapter 10: "The Crossroads"?
(a) Kolac.
(b) Bogomoljka.
(c) Verimovo.
(d) Marhan.

4. Who was the surviving hajduk that the apothecary stayed with after the rest of the band was killed?
(a) Dominic Lazlo.
(b) Nada Ivan.
(c) Mica the Cleaver.
(d) Blind Orlo.

5. What is the name of the song that Luka hears on the radio and recognizes as his own in Chapter 7: "The Butcher"?
(a) My True Love.
(b) The Enchantress.
(c) Growing Up Different.
(d) The Tiger's Wife.

6. What is the name of the merchant's daughter that Luka plans to marry in Chapter 7: "The Butcher"?
(a) Nada.
(b) Lidia.
(c) Ori.
(d) Amana.

7. Of the Deathless Man, Natalia says in the Epilogue, "According to my grandfather's descriptions, he is a young man at" how old?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Ninety-five.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) Fifty-five.

8. How old is the bride that Luka is tricked into marrying in Chapter 7: "The Butcher"?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 32.
(d) 13.

9. The narrator says in Chapter 12: "The Apothecary" that Marko Parovic will not talk about Darisa the Bear at all without enlisting encouragement from what?
(a) Several glasses of rakija.
(b) A few cigars.
(c) Several bottles of scotch.
(d) His grandchildren.

10. How old does the narrator say Darisa was when he first witnessed one of his sister's attacks in Chapter 9: "The Bear"?
(a) 3 years old.
(b) 13 years old.
(c) 8 years old.
(d) 16 years old.

11. 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"?
(a) The Nile River.
(b) The Indiri River.
(c) The Klamath River.
(d) The Galinica River.

12. What was the name of Darisa the Bear's sister who had a lifelong illness?
(a) Lidia.
(b) Magdalena.
(c) Nada.
(d) Amana.

13. When did Natalia return home with her grandfather's bag of belongings, according to the narrator in the Epilogue?
(a) On the morning of his funeral.
(b) Two weeks after his funeral.
(c) Two days after his funeral.
(d) The day before his funeral.

14. How much younger was Darisa the Bear than his sister who suffered from a lifelong illness?
(a) 2 years younger.
(b) 7 years younger.
(c) 5 years younger.
(d) 3 years younger.

15. Who is described as helping Luka's fiancee escape to be with the man she loves instead of marrying Luka in Chapter 7: "The Butcher"?
(a) The apothecary.
(b) Mother Vera.
(c) Barba Ivan.
(d) The tiger's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marco Parovic describe the apothecary's appearance in Chapter 12: "The Apothecary"?

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

3. What four-o'clock television show does Natalia describe watching with her grandfather for years in Chapter 11: "The Bombing"?

4. What kinds of animals does Fra Antun say come to the crossroads and carry rabies when Natalia insists on staying in Chapter 10: "The Crossroads"?

5. For how many days did Natalia's grandfather's bag sit on the hall table before it was opened by Natalia's grandmother, according to the narrator in the Epilogue?

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