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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. How many years pass between the census and recruitment of young men?
(a) One.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

3. What new building is created opposite Lotte's hotel?
(a) Mosque.
(b) Grocery store.
(c) Competing hotel.
(d) Officer's mess.

4. What new word is heard in Visegrad for the first time in Chapter 17?
(a) Mustard gas.
(b) Strike.
(c) Computer.
(d) Technology.

5. Who is accused of sending light signals toward the Serbian border?
(a) Two young students.
(b) Clerics.
(c) Two peasants and a townsman.
(d) Zorka.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Hadji Omer and his wife lack in life?

2. What is Alihodja sure he can hear coming form the marketplace at the end of Chapter 24?

3. What comes to the main streets of town in 1914?

4. What is the reaction of Visegrad Muslims to a census at the beginning of Chapter 13?

5. What is the reputation of the students who gather on the kapia in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Zorka's relationship with Glasičanin.

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

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

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

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

6. What is the summer like in 1914?

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

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

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

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

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