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

2. What do Hadji Omer and his wife lack in life?
(a) A child.
(b) Food.
(c) A home.
(d) Money.

3. What is Alihodja sure he can hear coming form the marketplace at the end of Chapter 24?
(a) Angry fighting.
(b) Gunfire.
(c) Windows breaking.
(d) Singing.

4. What is Zahler's sister-in-law's name?
(a) Lotte.
(b) Deborah.
(c) Jelenka.
(d) Mandy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What young relative does Lotte dress and feed?

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

3. Where does Alihodja go when the Austrians tell him to evacuate?

4. What does Albert's sister agree to do when she marries a rich man from Pest?

5. Where does Albert immigrate to after he is expelled from Vienna?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Gregor Fedun glad to be a streifkorps?

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

3. What is Janko Stiković preoccupied about at the beginning of Chapter 19?

4. What new changes do university students bring to the kapia?

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

6. What is Gregor's reaction to being interrogated?

7. How does ten days of bombardment affect the bridge?

8. What is Alihodja's perspective on the new changes in Visegrad?

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

10. Where does Alihodja go when the gendarmes tell him to evacuate?

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