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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old are the Christian children who are collected from Bosnia?
(a) Ten to fifteen.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Seventeen.

2. What does kapia mean?
(a) Noodle soup.
(b) Admonishment to loiterers.
(c) Town's cultural meeting place.
(d) Tribute to religious leaders.

3. How many refugee families intend to stay in Visegrad in Chapter 7?
(a) Two hundred.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

4. What does the narrator say distinguishes the people of the town in Chapter 1?
(a) Handsome looks.
(b) Carefree attitude.
(c) Unhappy people.
(d) Quarrelsome nature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Drina?

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

3. How long is a character in a delirium in Chapter 12?

4. Who is Salko Hedo?

5. What do the military vehicles deliver to Visegrad?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the blockhouse.

2. What is the setting of Visegrad ?

3. What diseases sweep through Sarajevo during the middle of the nineteenth century and limit travel?

4. Why does Radisav want to sabotage the building of the bridge?

5. Describe Milan Glasicanin of Okoliste.

6. Describe how the the Stone Han is changed.

7. What happens to the town of Visegrad during the great flood?

8. What occurs during the first part of the bridge construction?

9. What do the townspeople gain when the blockhouse is burned to the ground?

10. What does Bukus Gaon find on the kapia that changes his life forever?

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