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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. What do Hadji Omer and his wife lack in life?
(a) A home.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) A child.

2. What is the relationship between Mihailo Ristic and Peter Gatal?
(a) Uncle and nephew.
(b) Father and son.
(c) Grandfather and grandson.
(d) Godfather and godson.

3. How does Dr. Balus die?
(a) Swimming.
(b) He is shot by a soldier.
(c) In a fight with Mr. Bauer.
(d) Treating a typhus epidemic.

4. What does Stiković recall watching as a boy?
(a) Ćorkan's dance on the parapet.
(b) Animals playing on the kapia.
(c) A great explosion.
(d) The river freeze up.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maistor-Peitro's wife want him to do to the youths who chided him?

2. What are the canes made from that most of the university students carry in Visegrad?

3. What falls on Alihodja's shop and causes him to fly through the air?

4. Who is assassinated at the beginning of Chapter 16?

5. What happens to Lotte when she is cut off from her office and the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hadji Omer take a second wife?

2. What is Lotte's reaction when she reads about her nephew in the newspaper?

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

4. Who is Lotte?

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

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

7. Why is Salko Corkan considered a hero by his companions?

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

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

10. What happens to Lotte at the end of the novel?

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