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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is built to link Sarajevo with the Serbian frontier?
(a) Special conveyance to scale the mountains.
(b) Tunnel through the mountain.
(c) Railroad.
(d) Mountain road.

2. How does Gregor die?
(a) Kills himself with his rifle.
(b) Drowns.
(c) He is killed by soldiers.
(d) Has an accident with a vehicle.

3. Where do people think Mrs. Bauer goes after Dr. Balus' death?
(a) Sanatorium.
(b) Greece.
(c) America.
(d) Sarajevo.

4. Who passes Gregor on the bridge that he looks forward to seeing again?
(a) Soldier.
(b) Priest.
(c) Artist.
(d) A girl dressed in Turkish shawls.

5. What happens with the bridge in the early 1900's?
(a) A new stone fountain is built.
(b) It gets whitewashed.
(c) The lights are replaced.
(d) Engineers come to repair it.

6. Where does Zahler take his family and Lotte after the hotel is ruined?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Sarajevo.
(c) Russia.
(d) England.

7. How many times has Mujaga Mutapdžić been a refugee?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

8. What does Glasičanin tell Zorka after the Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated?
(a) He still wants to go to America.
(b) He has no hope for the future.
(c) He no longer wants to marry her.
(d) He is going to Serbia to fight.

9. Where does Alihodja hide in order to be alone?
(a) At a friend's home in a nearby village.
(b) Tiny room behind his shop.
(c) Up in the mountains.
(d) Under the bridge.

10. What comes to the main streets of town in 1914?
(a) Street signs.
(b) Fire hydrants.
(c) Sidewalks.
(d) Electrical lighting.

11. When Glasičanin asks Zorka to marry him, where does he want her to live?
(a) Africa.
(b) America.
(c) Italy.
(d) South America.

12. What is the reputation of the students who gather on the kapia in Chapter 18?
(a) Appreciated for their outspokeness.
(b) Amusing.
(c) Free thinkers and nationalists.
(d) Smart.

13. What falls on Alihodja's shop and causes him to fly through the air?
(a) A door.
(b) A chunk of the bridge.
(c) His neighbor's shop.
(d) A wooden beam.

14. Where do Lotte and her family live now that the hotel is in ruins?
(a) Medjan.
(b) Left bank of the Drina.
(c) Serbia.
(d) Up in the mountains.

15. What is the name of the hotel built on the river bank beside the bridge?
(a) Hotel-by-the-bridge.
(b) Zahler.
(c) Hotel Visegrad.
(d) Marketplace hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What young relative does Lotte dress and feed?

2. What does Stiković recall watching as a boy?

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

4. Who is arrested in October 1908 for tearing down something on the kapia?

5. What does Corkan dance on one icy night in Chapter 15?

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