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  1. Who reformed the Serbian language and alphabet in the nineteenth century, on the principle "write as you speak"?
  2. How many letters does the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet have?
  3. How many grammatical cases does Serbian have?
  4. Which writer from the Serbian tradition received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961?
  5. What is the traditional single-stringed instrument used to accompany Serbian epic poems?
  6. In which script is Serbian official under the Constitution of Serbia?
  7. Who wrote the verse drama The Mountain Wreath (Gorski vijenac), published in 1847?
  8. Which novel by Miloš Crnjanski follows the migrations of Serbs to the Habsburg lands in the eighteenth century?
  9. Which writer is the author of the comedy A Cabinet Minister's Wife (Gospođa ministarka)?
  10. Which writer wrote the novel Impure Blood (Nečista krv), set in the town of Vranje?
  11. Which Serbian novel by Milorad Pavić, published in 1984, is written as a dictionary?
  12. Which novel by Meša Selimović is a story of a dervish and a brother who is arrested?
  13. Which poet wrote the Romantic poem Đački rastanak (The Students' Farewell)?
  14. Which Serbian Romantic poet wrote Santa Maria della Salute?
  15. Which folk verse is typical of Serbian epic poetry?
  16. Which group of folk songs tells of the battle of 1389 and the fall of the medieval Serbian state?
  17. Which medieval manuscript, written about 1186, is one of the oldest Serbian illuminated books?
  18. Who is regarded as the first Serbian woman poet, known for her Praise of Prince Lazar?
  19. Who was the Serbian Enlightenment writer and first minister of education of Serbia?
  20. Which writer created the story collection A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (1976)?
  21. Which sentence has the correct form of the vocative for the name Petar?
  22. Which pair of words shows the ekavian and ijekavian pronunciation of the same word?
  23. Which sentence is written in the future tense?
  24. Which type of word is the word "brzo" in "Trči brzo" (He runs quickly)?
  25. Which sentence correctly uses the negation of a verb in Serbian?
  26. Which literary term describes a poem written in the first person that expresses personal feelings?
  27. What is a metaphor?
  28. Which period of Serbian literature includes the works of Vuk Karadžić, Njegoš and Branko Radičević?
  29. Which sentence contains a correct agreement of subject and predicate in Serbian?
  30. Which statement correctly describes the relationship between Vuk Karadžić's reform and the folk tradition?
  31. Which analysis fits the lines "Time is a river that carries all away"?
  32. In a poem the first four lines rhyme in the pattern abab. What is this called?
  33. Which statement about Ivo Andrić's The Bridge on the Drina is correct?
  34. Which text type is a letter from a student to a school principal asking for permission to organise an event?
  35. Which poet wrote Krvava bajka (Bloody Fairy Tale), a poem about the massacre of schoolchildren in Kragujevac in 1941?
  36. Which writer is the author of the novel A Time of Death (Vreme smrti) about Serbia in the First World War?

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