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

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) 5 days.
(c) 10 days.
(d) 7 days.

2. What is the name of the monk's father that hosts Natalia and Zora in his and his wife's home in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) Barba Ivan.
(b) Hassan Effendi.
(c) Bogdan Dankov.
(d) Dominic Lazlo.

3. What is the name of the town butcher in Galina in Chapter 4: "The Tiger"?
(a) Marko.
(b) Dure.
(c) Branko.
(d) Luka.

4. What is the name of the digger that Natalia follows at the dig site and speaks with in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?
(a) Dure.
(b) Ori.
(c) Branko.
(d) Dominic.

5. What word from Chapter 6: "The Fire" refers to doctors who specialize in working on the kidney?
(a) Nephrologists.
(b) Oncologist.
(c) Neurologists.
(d) Cardiologists.

6. What does Natalia respond when her grandfather asks what she might specialize in when she is in medical school in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) Pediatric surgery.
(b) Facial reconstruction.
(c) Gynecology.
(d) Neurology.

7. What is the name of the twenty-one-year-old self-proclaimed gun-runner that Zora begins dating when she is fifteen in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) Dubi.
(b) Branko.
(c) Dure.
(d) Marko.

8. What musician does the bartender put on the jukebox while Natalia waits for word from the clinic in Zdrevkov in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) John Lennon.
(b) Paul McCartney.
(c) Michael Jackson.
(d) Bob Dylan.

9. How far does Fra Antun tell Natalia that Zdrevkov is from the orphanage in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?
(a) An hour's drive.
(b) Three hours' drive.
(c) A twenty-minute drive.
(d) Two hours' drive.

10. During wartime, the Administration implements a curfew and mandatory lights-out at what time, according to Natalia in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) 9:00 p.m.
(b) 10:00 p.m.
(c) 8:00 p.m.
(d) 11:00 p.m.

11. Natalia and Zora's skull replicas are taken by customs at the border by what river valley in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) The Veleka River Valley.
(b) The Grava River Valley.
(c) The Buzau River Valley.
(d) The Nile River Valley.

12. Where did the Administration take out the airplane factory and airstrip six months before the war broke out, according to Natalia in Chapter 2: "The War"?
(a) Marhan.
(b) Zobov.
(c) Vojvodja.
(d) Zdrevkov.

13. Natalia says in Chapter 6: "The Fire" that her family had spent every summer at their summer lake house until she was how old?
(a) 11.
(b) 18.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.

14. Who does Zora insult in her first year of medical school by saying to him, "Don't be so fucking provincial," according to the narrator in Chapter 6: "The Fire"?
(a) The President of the University.
(b) The Chair of Genetics.
(c) Mika the Cleaver.
(d) The Dean of the University.

15. Where is Natalia working on a goodwill mission to inoculate the children at an orphanage in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?
(a) Zobov.
(b) Verimovo.
(c) Zdrevkov.
(d) Brejevina.

Short Answer Questions

1. The skull replicas that Natalia and Zora travel to buy on the black market during medical school are described as replicas of a magician from the 1940s named what?

2. What animal that was rescued from a circus does Natalia's grandfather take her to see at midnight when she is sixteen in Chapter 2: "The War"?

3. What does Natalia tells Zora she's going to buy when she takes the car to drive to Zdrevkov in Chapter 5: "The Orphanage"?

4. What mountain is described by the dig site in Chapter 3: "The Diggers"?

5. Who is the Franciscan monk that runs the monastery and is Natalia and Zora's contact in Chapter 1: "The Coast"?

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