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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. What color horse does the colonel arrive on when he comes to Visegrad?
(a) Spotted.
(b) Grey.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

2. How is the schoolmaster, Hussein Effendi, described?
(a) Small, plump, and well-dressed.
(b) Tall and thin.
(c) Sickly looking.
(d) Unkempt.

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

4. Who kills the Vezir Mehmed Pashir?
(a) Half-demented dervish.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Serbian revolutionary.
(d) Turkish revolutionary.

5. Who sets up his shop on the kapia at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Coffee maker.
(b) Weaver.
(c) Cheese maker.
(d) Wine maker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the soldiers erect in the middle of the bridge in Chapter 6?

2. Where does Fata ask the wedding procession to stop?

3. What is the town like on the day described at the beginning of Chapter 10?

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

5. How long is Bukus gone from Visegrad?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does the schoolmaster, Hussein Effendi, like to talk a lot?

2. Describe the bridge that spans the river Drina.

3. Does Alihodja's resistance to Karamanli end in suffering for him?

4. Why does the mufti of Plevlje's come to Visegrad?

5. Describe Milan Glasicanin of Okoliste.

6. Describe the setting of the kapia the night that refugees from Uzice cross the bridge.

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

8. What does the narrator say about the townspeople of Visegrad?

9. Describe the feast that celebrates the completion of the bridge.

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

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