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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens with the bridge in the early 1900's?
(a) A new stone fountain is built.
(b) The lights are replaced.
(c) It gets whitewashed.
(d) Engineers come to repair it.

2. How many refugee families cross the bridge on a warm summer evening?
(a) Two hundred.
(b) One hundred twenty.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Ten.

3. How does Avdaga Osmanagic die?
(a) Old age.
(b) Despair.
(c) Suffocating cough.
(d) Drowning.

4. Who is left behind on the riverbank because they are not allowed to cross on the ferry?
(a) Mothers and relatives of the children.
(b) Old men.
(c) Horse handlers.
(d) Sick children.

5. What does Stiković recall watching as a boy?
(a) Animals playing on the kapia.
(b) Ćorkan's dance on the parapet.
(c) The river freeze up.
(d) A great explosion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occupation does Zorka have?

2. What is the town's bridge made from?

3. When the plagues come to Sarajevo, what rules do Muslims disobey?

4. How does Gregor die?

5. What does mad Ilinka think has happened to her children?

(see the answer key)

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