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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 are streifkorps?

2. Who is the first to play a gramophone on the kapia?

3. What is the name of the hotel built on the river bank beside the bridge?

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

5. What new building is created opposite Lotte's hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Lotte so tired?

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

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

4. Why does Hadji Omer take a second wife?

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

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

7. Why is Salko Corkan considered a hero by his companions?

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

9. Describe Zorka's relationship with Glasičanin.

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

Is Glasičanin an independent thinker? How does he interact with others? What is his view of the war and how does he hope to bring freedom to Serbia?

Essay Topic 2

"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.

Essay Topic 3

Identify a character who resists change and prefers to live in a traditional way. How does this character manage to avoid changing with the times? Why does he or she believe it is important to remain true to the "old ways"?

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