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

2. Where do Lotte and her family live now that the hotel is in ruins?
(a) Left bank of the Drina.
(b) Up in the mountains.
(c) Serbia.
(d) Medjan.

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

4. What kind of writer is Toma Galus?
(a) Food columnist.
(b) Novelist.
(c) Gossip columnist.
(d) Poet.

5. What does Corkan dance on one icy night in Chapter 15?
(a) Statue outside Lotte's hotel.
(b) Hill behind the marketplace.
(c) Riverbank.
(d) Parapet of the bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occupation does Zorka have?

2. Who is accused of sending light signals toward the Serbian border?

3. Where does Alihodja's life end?

4. What are streifkorps?

5. Where do Zorka and Glasičanin spend time together?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Zorka's relationship with Glasičanin.

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

5. Who is Lotte?

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

7. How does Jelenka fool Gregor Fedun?

8. Describe the relationship between Janko Stikovic and Nikola Glasičanin.

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

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

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