The Cellist of Sarajevo Quizzes

The Cellist of Sarajevo Quiz 1

1 What decade does the novel take place?
The 1980s

The 1970s

The 1960s

The 1990s
2 How many characters get their own section(s)?
2

4

1

3
3 Which character only gets one section?
Dragan

Kenan

Arrow

The cellist
4 Why does the cellist decide to play ?
To save music

To ease his suffering

To resist

To honor the dead
5 How many days will the cellist play?
20

22

10

12
6 The enemy is referred to as "the men on _____ "
the bluff

the mountains

the hills

the fringes
7 Arrow's sniping is
practiced

an art

intuitive

erratic
8 Arrow refuses to kill
old people

women

civilians

soldiers
9 Arrow hates the men on the hills because
they are the enemy

they are evil

she loves her city

they made her hate them
10 Arrow's choice of a target
is sometimes random

is told to her in advance

is always planned

is never planned
11 Kenan is in his
50s

60s

40s

20s
12 What is Kenan's main duty?
To get water

To be a sniper

To work at a bakery

To fight the men on the hills
13 How many containers in total does Kenan take?
2

6

4

10
14 Mrs. Ristovski is all the following except
rude

nosy

opinionated

young
15 Dragan works at a/an
bakery

office building

marketplace

fortress
16 Dragan's main action in the novel is
trying to get to work

trying to get water

trying to protect his family

trying to kill the men on the hills
17 Dragan's family is
missing

in Italy

in Sarajevo

dead
18 The snipers that menace Dragan are at
bridges

intersections

the marketplace

the brewery
19 Dragan thinks the city looks
dead

cruel

gray

dark
20 Whom does Dragan first see at the intersection?
Emina

A man with a hat

A neighbor

A man who used to work near him
21 Ismet is
a soldier

a friend of Kenan's

formerly a taxi driver

all of these
22 How does Kenan feel about fighting in the war?
He avoids being drafted

He is afraid to die

He is afraid to kill

All of these
23 Kenan is always amused by the unbroken
mirror on the street

apartment windows

car mirrors

car windows
24 Kenan sold what on the black market?
His washing machine

His wedding ring

His guitar

His typewriter
25 How do people get out of Sarajevo?
By boat

A tunnel

Airplanes

A road

Memory:

Now, after all that has happened, Dragan knows that the Sarajevo he remembers, the city he grew up in and was proud of and happy with, likely never existed. If he looks around him, it's hard to see what once was, or maybe was. More and...

Asked by Joseph M #1333013

Answered by jill d #170087 on 1/10/2024 7:05 PM