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

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Zorka's relationship with Glasičanin.

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

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

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

7. Who is Lotte?

8. What is Alihodja's perspective on the new changes in Visegrad?

9. How does Jelenka fool Gregor Fedun?

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

Why does the novel end with Alihodja and his decision to stay in his shop during a bombardment? How is this choice a final act of resistance? What is the author suggesting by his death in the final scene of novel?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the great flood and the destruction it causes. How do the townspeople find shelter during the flood? In what ways does the flood bring them closer together?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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