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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What month is it when the children are collected in Bosnia?
(a) April.
(b) July.
(c) November.
(d) September.

2. When spring arrives, what does the author say helps the young people forget about the terrible winter they have survived?
(a) Reading books.
(b) The beauty of song.
(c) The nice weather.
(d) Swimming.

3. Whose house has windows that catch the last rays of sunlight?
(a) Nail's.
(b) Hamzic's.
(c) Hedo's.
(d) Osmanagići's.

4. How old is Bukus Gaon?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Forty-four.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Sixteen.

5. How old is the dark-skinned boy who is collected from the town of Sokolovici?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Ten.

6. Where do weddings and funerals always stop in Chapter 1?
(a) Main restaurant.
(b) Field with hill.
(c) Town center with church clock.
(d) The kapia.

7. What is Mula Ibrahim's reputation?
(a) He believes he is better than Pop Nikola.
(b) He is good and generous.
(c) He is shy and retiring.
(d) He is fierce and mean.

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

9. Where do many of the refugee families intend to go who cross the bridge in Chapter 7?
(a) Serbia.
(b) The next village over from Visegrad.
(c) Sarajevo.
(d) Bosnia.

10. What natural disaster occurred in Visegrad in the second half of the 18th century?
(a) Hurricane.
(b) Tsunami.
(c) Earthquake.
(d) Flood.

11. What happens on the kapia on the eve of August 18th every year after the newcomers arrive?
(a) The bridge is decorated.
(b) It is painted orange.
(c) Fireworks.
(d) It is whitewashed.

12. What is the town's bridge made from?
(a) Brick.
(b) Stone.
(c) Wood.
(d) Metal.

13. What season does the building of the bridge begin?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Spring.

14. Why are the Turks waiting for Miles at the mill?
(a) To ask him directions.
(b) To give him grain to mill.
(c) To get firewood.
(d) To capture him and bring him to town.

15. When are the Turks expelled from Hungary?
(a) End of the seventeenth century.
(b) Sixteenth century.
(c) Fourteenth century.
(d) Nineteenth century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy from Sokolovici feel when he comes to the ferry crossing?

2. What kind of horse does Osmanagic own?

3. What color rug does Shemsibeg sit and smoke on in Chapter 11?

4. What do the urchins steal from the old women on the kapia?

5. What does Bukus find on the kapia?

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