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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. Where does Zahler take his family and Lotte after the hotel is ruined?
(a) Russia.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Sarajevo.
(d) England.

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

3. Where does Alihodja go when the Austrians tell him to evacuate?
(a) To his house.
(b) Medjan.
(c) The kapia.
(d) To his "coffin" or tiny room.

4. Why do Turkish youths chide Maistor-Peitro as he walks across the bridge in Chapter 18?
(a) Over the defeat in Tripoli.
(b) His poor workmanship.
(c) His hat.
(d) His clothing.

5. What wears Lotte out in Chapter 20?
(a) Working on her accounts after midnight.
(b) Having too many customers.
(c) Making lots of money.
(d) Traveling to see her nephew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What falls on Alihodja's shop and causes him to fly through the air?

2. What new building is created opposite Lotte's hotel?

3. What new word is heard in Visegrad for the first time in Chapter 17?

4. What does the army insist upon in the marketplace during artillery fire in Chapter 23?

5. What young relative does Lotte dress and feed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jelenka fool Gregor Fedun?

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

4. What is the summer like in 1914?

5. Describe Zorka's relationship with Glasičanin.

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

7. Who is Lotte?

8. Why does Hadji Omer take a second wife?

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

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

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