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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 the summer of 1914 like for Visegrad?
(a) There is a terrible famine.
(b) Fruitful.
(c) The weather is rainy.
(d) Poor.

2. What does Glasičanin say about Stiković when they are debating on the kapia?
(a) He should marry.
(b) He is too vain to love anyone or anything.
(c) Urges him to lend him money.
(d) He is a great writer.

3. What do the university students that come to Visegrad wear on their heads?
(a) Military helmets.
(b) Turbans.
(c) Panama hats.
(d) Baseball caps.

4. What does Maistor-Peitro's wife want him to do to the youths who chided him?
(a) Toss them off the bridge.
(b) Have them arrested.
(c) Hit them in the face with his hammer.
(d) Sue them for libel.

5. What does Alihodja turn his house into in Chapter 23?
(a) Meeting room for rebels.
(b) Cafe.
(c) Muslim religious school.
(d) Reading room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Glasičanin tell Zorka after the Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated?

2. Where does Zahler take his family and Lotte after the hotel is ruined?

3. Who does Zahler's sister-in-law help with her fortune?

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

5. What is the relationship between Mihailo Ristic and Peter Gatal?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hadji Omer take a second wife?

2. Why is Lotte so tired?

3. How does Jelenka fool Gregor Fedun?

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

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

6. What does Alihodja want most in the moments before he dies?

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

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

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

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

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