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

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

3. Where does Albert immigrate to after he is expelled from Vienna?

4. How does Gregor die?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Is Gregor Fedun glad to be a streifkorps?

3. Why is Lotte so tired?

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

5. What is the summer like in 1914?

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

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

8. Why does Hadji Omer take a second wife?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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"?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Zorka's relationship with Stiković. What does she see in him? How is she disillusioned by his response to her? Does she hold out hope for a relationship with him? How can you tell?

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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