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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the university students that come to Visegrad wear on their heads?

2. How old is Gregor Fedun?

3. What happens with the bridge in the early 1900's?

4. What kind of writer is Toma Galus?

5. What are streifkorps?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Lotte so tired?

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

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

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

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

6. Is Gregor Fedun glad to be a streifkorps?

7. How does Jelenka fool Gregor Fedun?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Fata Osmanagic keep both her word and her father's word? Describe Fata's view of her place in the world and her relationship with her father. Why does she choose death over marriage?

Essay Topic 2

What is the town's reaction to the bridge construction when it first begins? How does their reaction to it change as the years go on? What is their general opinion of the bridge when it is finished?

Essay Topic 3

"Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs." Do you agree or disagree with this comment by the narrator? How does life on the kapia return time and time again to its original intent? Use specific textual examples to support your viewpoint.

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