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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the soldiers erect in the middle of the bridge in Chapter 6?
(a) Radio headquarters.
(b) Barn for livestock.
(c) Blockhouse.
(d) Statue of their leader.

2. Who is Nail-beg Hamzić?
(a) The man Fata marries.
(b) Wood cutter.
(c) Soldier.
(d) Fisherman.

3. What color are the military vehicles in Chapter 11?
(a) Black.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

4. What does the boy from Sokolovici feel when he comes to the ferry crossing?
(a) Stomachache.
(b) Knife-like pang in his chest.
(c) Headache.
(d) Burning sensation in his arm.

5. Who uses a pair of pliers in Chapter 9?
(a) Pop Nikola.
(b) Hospital orderly.
(c) Alihodja.
(d) Osman Effendi.

6. What are the Christian children collected from Bosnia for in Chapter 2?
(a) Children's party.
(b) Springtime planting.
(c) Blood tribute.
(d) Harvest Festival.

7. What is Alihodja Mutevelic known for?
(a) His outspoken nature and independence.
(b) Shyness.
(c) He is easily swayed by others' opinions.
(d) Agreeable nature.

8. Where do the townspeople no longer go after the soldiers arrive in Chapter 11?
(a) River.
(b) Marketplace.
(c) Church.
(d) Kapia.

9. What is the Drina?
(a) Fountain.
(b) Lake.
(c) Mountain.
(d) River.

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

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

12. Who takes over the town in the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Turkish military.
(b) Serbian army.
(c) Russian military.
(d) Austrian troops.

13. What does Pop Nikola offer to the men on the kapia before the colonel arrives?
(a) Plum wine.
(b) Candies.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Small cakes.

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

15. What severed heads are on display on the kapia in 1878?
(a) Bosnian.
(b) Turkish.
(c) Serbian.
(d) Uzice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Osman Effendi Karamanli argue with Alihodja about?

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

3. What is Miles doing at daybreak in the woods?

4. What is the mufti surprised by when he talks with the Turkish leaders of Visegrad?

5. What does Alihodja say to the soldier with the red cross on his arm at the end of Chapter 9?

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