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

2. What is Zahler's sister-in-law's name?

3. How many years pass between the census and recruitment of young men?

4. Where do Lotte and her family live now that the hotel is in ruins?

5. What role does Pasa play in Hadji Omer's life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Gregor's reaction to being interrogated?

3. Why does Hadji Omer take a second wife?

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

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

6. Why is Lotte so tired?

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

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

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

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

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

Identify a character who shows exceptional leadership qualities in the novel and discuss how this person influences the town of Visegrad. Use specific textual examples to support your viewpoint.

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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