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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Zahler's sister-in-law help with her fortune?
(a) The government officials.
(b) The destitute.
(c) The soldiers.
(d) The schools.

2. What falls on Alihodja's shop and causes him to fly through the air?
(a) A chunk of the bridge.
(b) His neighbor's shop.
(c) A door.
(d) A wooden beam.

3. What comes to the main streets of town in 1914?
(a) Sidewalks.
(b) Electrical lighting.
(c) Fire hydrants.
(d) Street signs.

4. What makes Alihodja's ear tingle when he is on the bridge in October, 1908?
(a) He has an infection.
(b) He was stung by a bee.
(c) A boy reading a proclamation.
(d) Someone is talking about him.

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

6. What role does Pasa play in Hadji Omer's life?
(a) Second wife.
(b) Housekeeper.
(c) Laundress.
(d) Seamstress.

7. Where are Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife assassinated?
(a) Bosnia.
(b) Visegrad.
(c) Italy.
(d) Sarajevo.

8. How old is Gregor Fedun?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty-three.

9. How does Salko Corkan support himself?
(a) Hotel worker.
(b) Schoolmaster.
(c) Entertainer.
(d) Cleric.

10. What does Glasičanin say about Stiković when they are debating on the kapia?
(a) Urges him to lend him money.
(b) He is a great writer.
(c) He is too vain to love anyone or anything.
(d) He should marry.

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

12. What are the canes made from that most of the university students carry in Visegrad?
(a) Bamboo.
(b) Wood.
(c) Metal.
(d) Sticks.

13. How many years pass between the census and recruitment of young men?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

14. Who does Zorka kiss in an empty classroom?
(a) Stiković.
(b) Corkan.
(c) Balas.
(d) Galus.

15. What does Corkan dance on one icy night in Chapter 15?
(a) Parapet of the bridge.
(b) Statue outside Lotte's hotel.
(c) Riverbank.
(d) Hill behind the marketplace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is accused of sending light signals toward the Serbian border?

2. Why does Zorka say she will give Glasičanin an answer to his marriage proposal in a month?

3. Where does Zahler take his family and Lotte after the hotel is ruined?

4. Who passes Gregor on the bridge that he looks forward to seeing again?

5. What do the townspeople believe is happening when the bridge pier is drilled and a manhole cover is put over it?

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