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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of nationalists does Ka continue to tell Blue he needs joint support of along with the ex-Communists?
(a) Islamist.
(b) African.
(c) Syrian.
(d) Kurdish.

2. What is the name of the organization of the man who questions the Director of Education, saying he has condemned the director to death?
(a) The Justice Seekers.
(b) The Freedom Fighters for Islamic Justice.
(c) The Islamic Fighters.
(d) The Freedom Fighters.

3. What is the name of Ka's friend whom he runs into after leaving his first meeting with Blue?
(a) Rustem.
(b) Fazil.
(c) Necip.
(d) Fahir.

4. Which of the following things does not occur to the director after getting off an elevator with a man, according to a story Ka's college friend tells him after he leaves his first meeting with Blue?
(a) Commits suicide.
(b) Becomes an atheist.
(c) Loses faith in God.
(d) Becomes obsessed with death.

5. Who does Necip proclaim his love for when he comes up to Ka for the second time in the book?
(a) Kadife.
(b) Hicran.
(c) Ipek.
(d) Hande.

6. What poet does Ka tell Sunay that he and Muhtar both read when he says he must have grown up on Western films?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Boudelaire.
(c) E.E. Cummings.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

7. Who does Ipek bring Ka a letter from when she comes to tell him the director's condition has worsened?
(a) Ohan Bey.
(b) Saadettin Cevher.
(c) Sunay Zaim.
(d) Kadife.

8. Where does Ka secretly meet Kadife at a hotel to discuss Blue?
(a) A bedroom.
(b) A bathroom.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) A storage room.

9. What does the sheik tell Ka is the first thing he needs to learn when they first talk in a café?
(a) Calm.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Love.
(d) Humility.

10. What political party did Ipek's father once belong to?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Republican.
(c) Islamist.
(d) Communist.

11. What is the name of the café Ka stops at to get directions, but stops to listen to a sheik?
(a) The Snow Palace Cafe.
(b) The New Life Pastry Shop.
(c) The Teahouse.
(d) The Green Pastures Café.

12. What does Turgut advise Ka to increase his belief in to save himself from being punished by Islamists?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Islam.
(c) His country.
(d) God.

13. How many hours does Ka sleep the night of the revolution at the theater?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

14. How many years had Ka been away from Turkey when he returns at the beginning of the book?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 14.

15. What is the name of Ka's friend who visits Kars four years after him, just after he has died?
(a) Hicran.
(b) Sunay Zaim.
(c) Turgut Bey.
(d) Orhan Bey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following tribes is not mentioned to have influenced the Kars region according to Ka?

2. Where does Nacip have Ka meet him to give him the love letters he wishes for him to deliver?

3. What is the name of the first poem that Ka writes in the book?

4. What is Ka's name an abbreviation of?

5. What does Ka become at first during his meeting with Ipek before composing himself?

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