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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 is Alihodja's reputation in the town in Chapter 16?
(a) He has a dark view of everything.
(b) He speaks well of the Austrians.
(c) He is happy about the new changes.
(d) He is lighthearted.

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

3. Who is the seamstress that Corkan pines for?
(a) Sumbo.
(b) Paša from Dušče.
(c) Jalenka.
(d) Saha.

4. When Glasičanin asks Zorka to marry him, where does he want her to live?
(a) Africa.
(b) America.
(c) South America.
(d) Italy.

5. How does Dr. Balus die?
(a) In a fight with Mr. Bauer.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Treating a typhus epidemic.
(d) He is shot by a soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Zorka and Glasičanin spend time together?

2. What wears Lotte out in Chapter 20?

3. How many years pass between the census and recruitment of young men?

4. Who is assassinated at the beginning of Chapter 16?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Zorka's relationship with Glasičanin.

2. How does Alihodja feel when a proclamation is posted on the kapia and read by a young boy?

3. Why is Salko Corkan considered a hero by his companions?

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

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

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

7. How does the outside world creep into Visegrad at the turn of the 20th century?

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

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

10. Why does Hadji Omer take a second wife?

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