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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Albert immigrate to after he is expelled from Vienna?

2. Who grows thin and pale and thinks about jumping into the Drina in the summer of 914?

3. What young relative does Lotte dress and feed?

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

5. Where does Alihodja's life end?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jelenka fool Gregor Fedun?

2. Why is Lotte so tired?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the summer like in 1914?

9. Is Gregor Fedun glad to be a streifkorps?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Glasičanin an independent thinker? How does he interact with others? What is his view of the war and how does he hope to bring freedom to Serbia?

Essay Topic 2

Identify a character who shows exceptional leadership qualities in the novel and discuss how this person influences the town of Visegrad. Use specific textual examples to support your viewpoint.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the railroad that is built and how it influences the town of Visegrad. What is the reaction to it, both positive and negative, among the townspeople? How does it change the town in economic and social ways?

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