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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 job does Tosun Effendi have with the bridge construction?
(a) Builder of scaffold.
(b) Quarryman.
(c) Guard.
(d) Mason.

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

3. What is the town like on the day described at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Silent and empty.
(b) Chaos in the market.
(c) A festival is taking place.
(d) Noisy.

4. What is posted on the kapia beneath the marble plaque?
(a) Posters for missing children.
(b) Protest flyers.
(c) Proclamations and public orders.
(d) Advertisements.

5. What does Alihodja say to the soldier with the red cross on his arm at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Please accept my apologies.
(b) I need no one's help.
(c) Thank you.
(d) Come to my house for dinner tonight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does kapia mean?

2. Who kills the Vezir Mehmed Pashir?

3. Who is left behind on the riverbank because they are not allowed to cross on the ferry?

4. When spring arrives, what does the author say helps the young people forget about the terrible winter they have survived?

5. How old are the Christian children who are collected from Bosnia?

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