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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 young relative does Lotte dress and feed?
(a) Her brother's daughter.
(b) Her youngest nephew.
(c) Her grandchild.
(d) Her cousin.

2. What is the relationship between Mihailo Ristic and Peter Gatal?
(a) Uncle and nephew.
(b) Father and son.
(c) Godfather and godson.
(d) Grandfather and grandson.

3. What is built to link Sarajevo with the Serbian frontier?
(a) Mountain road.
(b) Tunnel through the mountain.
(c) Railroad.
(d) Special conveyance to scale the mountains.

4. What is unusual about Gregor's physical appearance?
(a) He is gigantic.
(b) He has a wooden leg.
(c) He has very long hair.
(d) He is short and thin.

5. Who is the first to play a gramophone on the kapia?
(a) Soldier.
(b) Coffee merchant.
(c) Cleric.
(d) Teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dr. Balus die?

2. When Glasičanin asks Zorka to marry him, where does he want her to live?

3. What is Alihodja's reputation in the town in Chapter 16?

4. How old is Gregor Fedun?

5. What are the canes made from that most of the university students carry in Visegrad?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does Mihailo Ristić play in keeping merchants safe during the bombardment?

2. How does Jelenka fool Gregor Fedun?

3. Why does Hadji Omer take a second wife?

4. What is Lotte's reaction when she reads about her nephew in the newspaper?

5. What is the reaction to the gramophone when the coffee merchant plays it on the kapia?

6. Is Gregor Fedun glad to be a streifkorps?

7. What happens in Visegrad when Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated?

8. What happens to Lotte at the end of the novel?

9. What new changes occur in 1900 to the town of Visegrad?

10. Describe Zorka's relationship with Glasičanin.

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