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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What program was Zlata watching on MTV in October 1991?

2. Which section of town was being shelled in April 1992?

3. What is the "most beautiful mountain in the world" according to Zlata?

4. What was not the same since the war started according to Filipovich on September 20, 1992?

5. What did Zlata's dad wait hours in line for and sometimes at night receive?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Filipovics find their apartment when a shell fell nearby?

2. What did Filipovic and her friends do when they visited Jahorina?

3. How did Filipovic think people in the streets reacted to being in a war zone?

4. What did Melica say she heard at the hairdresser's?

5. Describe Filipovic's responsibilities during her mother's illness in February of 1992.

6. Describe Filipovic's Christmas in December of 1991.

7. How did FIlipovic and her father react when the marketplace was shelled and Filipovic's mother was nearby?

8. Describe the violence in Sarajevo as described by Filipovic in March of 1992.

9. Why did Filipovic want to see Mirna on May 13?

10. Why was Filipovic's mother upset on May 13, 1992?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Filipovic was able to escape Sarajevo and move to Paris. Filipovic described the city of Paris as she saw it outside the airplane window. Compare the cities of Sarajevo and Paris.

Essay Topic 2

Zlata's Filipovic's diary nicknamed "Mimmy" was published as a child's diary focused on the war in Sarajevo. The diary was published during UNICEF week. Compare Zlata's Diary and The Diary of Anne Frank.

Part 1) How are the diaries similar?

Part 2) How are the diaries different?

Part 3) Filipovic suggested in a diary entry dated August 2, 1993 that she did not want to suffer the same fate as Anne Frank. What did she mean by that statement?

Essay Topic 3

Filipovic discussed several pets she had or shared with others during the war. Filipovic had a bird, cat, and dog at different times throughout the war.

Part 1) Describe the pets that Filipovic had during the war.

Part 2) Explain how pets were a comfort or therapeutic to Filipovic during stressful times during the war.

Part 3) How did Filipovic react to the death of her pets?

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