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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 is the man holding in his hand when he asks Kenan if he has seen his terrier?

2. What was the relationship between Kenan and Raza when they moved into their current apartment building?

3. What does Dragan do when he decides he does not want the cameraman to take photographs of a particular character's body?

4. Emina sustains a gunshot wound just above which part of her body?

5. Dragan and Emina are standing next to what kind of object when the reader rejoins them in Chapter Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the emotions Kenan feels when the brewery comes into view.

2. What epiphany does Kenan have as he listens to the cellist perform in Chapter Three?

3. What is ironic about Emina's regret concerning the cellist, which she voices to Dragan in Chapter Three?

4. In what way does the theme of appearance versus reality arise within the latter half of Chapter Two?

5. For what reason does Kenan feel a variety of emotions upon arriving at the brewery?

6. What action does Arrow take when Hasan orders her to kill a civilian?

7. What evidence leads Arrow to believe that the murder of Ermin Filiopovic had been an inside job?

8. What is the setting of the opening of Chapter Three and which character's story is narrated first?

9. Discuss how the themes of guilt and responsibility arise in the aftermath of Kenan’s frightening experience at the brewery.

10. What does Filipovic mean when he tells Arrow it is time for her to disappear in Chapter Three?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sensory details are used frequently by Galloway in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of The Cellist of Sarajevo. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Galloway’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.

Essay Topic 2

Examine Galloway’s use of characterization methods to portray himself within the narrative. What effects do these characterization methods have on the themes and messages inherent in The Cellist of Sarajevo?

Essay Topic 3

Choose an object from The Cellist of Sarajevo, such as the cello notes, the bottle of expired pills, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.

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