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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: “The Fire”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days did it take the clinic staff where Natalia's grandfather died to contact Natalia's grandmother and inform her of his death in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 7 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 10 days.

2. What is the name of Barba Ivan's wife in the novel?
(a) Nada.
(b) Lidia.
(c) Amana.
(d) Magdalena.

3. What age does Natalia say she was when took a dive off her bicycle and "bawled through half an hour of treatment via rakija-soaked cloth" to her knees, in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) 7.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

4. Who is the professor of biochemical engineering that failed to put in a good word for Natalia after her suspension?
(a) Dr. Bogdan Dankov.
(b) Fra Antun.
(c) Dr. Avgustin.
(d) Dr. Srdjan.

5. How many children are supposedly being housed at the monastery in Brejevina that is intended to accommodate twenty monks, according to the narrator in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) 30.
(b) 40.
(c) 60.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Natalia's grandmother tell her that the funeral will be for Natalia's grandfather in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?

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

3. What kind of animal is Bis?

4. How old does Natalia describe herself in her earliest memory of going to the zoo with her grandfather in the novel's Prologue?

5. 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"?

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