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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Salko Hedo?
(a) Shop owner.
(b) Artist.
(c) Local fisherman.
(d) Gendarme who could not be bribed.

2. How long does it take Fata to arrange her trousseau?
(a) Two years.
(b) Three months.
(c) One month.
(d) One week.

3. What do the soldiers erect in the middle of the bridge in Chapter 6?
(a) Radio headquarters.
(b) Barn for livestock.
(c) Blockhouse.
(d) Statue of their leader.

4. Who kills the Vezir Mehmed Pashir?
(a) Soldier.
(b) Serbian revolutionary.
(c) Half-demented dervish.
(d) Turkish revolutionary.

5. Who says at the end of Chapter 10 " A bloody business, this army..."?
(a) Pop Nikola.
(b) Salko Hedo.
(c) David Levi.
(d) Chief of police.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens on the kapia on the eve of August 18th every year after the newcomers arrive?

2. In the mid-nineteenth century, how many plagues ravage Sarajevo?

3. What do the children ride in after they are collected from Bosnia?

4. What does the Montenegrin traveler sing when he comes upon the bridge construction?

5. Where does Fata ask the wedding procession to stop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the town of Visegrad during the great flood?

2. What diseases sweep through Sarajevo during the middle of the nineteenth century and limit travel?

3. What occurs during the first part of the bridge construction?

4. Describe Abidaga.

5. Does Alihodja's resistance to Karamanli end in suffering for him?

6. How do the people of Visegrad react when the bridge is almost complete?

7. Describe the bridge that spans the river Drina.

8. How does Dauthodja give his life for the Stone Han?

9. What are the important cultural events that occur on the bridge in Chapter 1?

10. Describe Arif Beg.

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