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

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

3. What does Glasičanin say about Stiković when they are debating on the kapia?
(a) Urges him to lend him money.
(b) He should marry.
(c) He is a great writer.
(d) He is too vain to love anyone or anything.

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

5. What does sergeant-major Drazenovic order Gregor to do at the end of his evening shift on the bridge?
(a) Go to dinner as quickly as possible.
(b) Walk to the market and buy him some fruit.
(c) Go to the dormitory as soon as possible and stay until further notice.
(d) Sing a song from their home country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Alihodja's ear tingle when he is on the bridge in October, 1908?

2. What is unusual about Gregor's physical appearance?

3. Who is the seamstress that Corkan pines for?

4. Where are Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife assassinated?

5. Why does the brigand Jakov Cekrlija want to cross the bridge?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Gregor's reaction to being interrogated?

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

4. Why is Lotte so tired?

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

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

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

8. Why does Hadji Omer take a second wife?

9. Who is Lotte?

10. Describe Zorka's relationship with Glasičanin.

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