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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of the novel?
(a) Stambul.
(b) Austria.
(c) Sarajevo.
(d) Visegrad.

2. What fruit is brought to the kapia at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Peaches.
(b) Raspberries.
(c) Pears.
(d) Canteloupes and watermelons.

3. What does mad Ilinka think has happened to her children?
(a) They were walled up in the bridge.
(b) They are staying in another town.
(c) They were lost by her.
(d) Her employer is raising them.

4. In the mid-nineteenth century, how many plagues ravage Sarajevo?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

5. What does Karamanli order his servant to do to Alihodja?
(a) Make him leave town.
(b) Cut his hair.
(c) Put him under house arrest.
(d) Nail him by his right ear to the kapia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does kapia mean?

2. What nickname do the townspeople give Arif Beg?

3. What curse does the old women yell at the urchins who stole from her on the bridge?

4. What does the narrator say distinguishes the people of the town in Chapter 1?

5. What is the town like on the day described at the beginning of Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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