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

2. Where does Alihodja's life end?
(a) On the riverbank near the bridge.
(b) Walking up the hill to his home.
(c) In the marketplace.
(d) In his shop.

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

4. What does Stiković recall watching as a boy?
(a) A great explosion.
(b) Animals playing on the kapia.
(c) The river freeze up.
(d) Ćorkan's dance on the parapet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Glasičanin say about Stiković when they are debating on the kapia?

2. What are the canes made from that most of the university students carry in Visegrad?

3. When Glasičanin asks Zorka to marry him, where does he want her to live?

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

5. What are Balas and Mme. Bauer playing in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hadji Omer take a second wife?

2. How does Jelenka fool Gregor Fedun?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Zorka's relationship with Glasičanin.

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

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

10. Who is Lotte?

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