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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What four-o'clock television show does Natalia describe watching with her grandfather for years in Chapter 11: "The Bombing"?
(a) Allo, Allo!
(b) Romanzo Criminale.
(c) Braquo.
(d) Wheel of Fortune.

2. Who is the first taxidermist that Darisa apprentices with in Chapter 9: "The Bear"?
(a) Khasim Aga.
(b) Mr. Bogdan Dankov.
(c) Hassan Effendi.
(d) Dominic Lazlo.

3. What does Dure use as a "metaphorical heart" in the ritual in Chapter 8: "The Heart"?
(a) A skull.
(b) A rag.
(c) An apple.
(d) A stone.

4. What did Natalia look for but not find among her grandfather's belongings, as described in the Epilogue?
(a) The Stranger.
(b) Aesop's Fables.
(c) The Jungle Book.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

5. What word used in the Epilogue means lasting a very short time, or transitory?
(a) Catatonic.
(b) Enduring.
(c) Ephemeral.
(d) Mesmerizing.

6. What is the name of the zoo's beloved elephant that drops dead in Chapter 11: "The Bombing"?
(a) Ori.
(b) Luka.
(c) Amana.
(d) Sonja.

7. Natalia agrees to bury the remains of Dure's cousin at the crossroads on the condition that he do what the next day in Chapter 8: "The Heart"?
(a) Join the war efforts.
(b) Send his family to the clinic.
(c) Turn himself into the police.
(d) Return to Russia.

8. 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) Branko.
(b) Ori.
(c) Dure.
(d) Fra Antun.

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

10. What does the tiger at the zoo begin compulsively doing in Chapter 11: "The Bombing"?
(a) Eating its young.
(b) Breaking out of its cage.
(c) Attacking the zookeepers.
(d) Eating itself.

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

12. In Marco Parovic's story of Darisa the Bear in Chapter 12: "The Apothecary," he describes Darisa awakening to find the tiger eating what?
(a) Darisa's leg.
(b) Darisa's hand.
(c) Darisa's heart.
(d) An elk.

13. The narrator says in Chapter 9: "The Bear," "That is the truth about Darisa: the man was" what "at heart"?
(a) A taxidermist.
(b) Evil.
(c) Confused.
(d) A butcher.

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

15. What word from Chapter 8: "The Heart" means characterized by sudden, violent outburst?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Premeditated.
(c) Paroxysmal.
(d) Euphoric.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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. When did Natalia return home with her grandfather's bag of belongings, according to the narrator in the Epilogue?

4. Natalia says in Chapter 7: "The Butcher," "My grandfather did not know any of these things, but the other villagers knew, without having to talk about it, that Luka was" what?

5. 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"?

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