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

2. Who is assassinated at the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) Empress Elizabeth.
(b) Princess Anna.
(c) King Fernidad.
(d) Prnce David.

3. What new building is created opposite Lotte's hotel?
(a) Grocery store.
(b) Competing hotel.
(c) Mosque.
(d) Officer's mess.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the hotel built on the river bank beside the bridge?

2. What do the townspeople believe is happening when the bridge pier is drilled and a manhole cover is put over it?

3. Where does Alihodja hide in order to be alone?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Alihodja go when the gendarmes tell him to evacuate?

3. Is Gregor Fedun glad to be a streifkorps?

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

5. Why is Lotte so tired?

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

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

8. Who is Lotte?

9. Why does Hadji Omer take a second wife?

10. What happens in Visegrad when Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated?

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