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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 is the name of the friend that Muhtar admits is the Westernized, self-possessed individual he always wanted to be?
(a) Fazil.
(b) Fahir.
(c) Orhan.
(d) Necip.

2. What does Sunay tell Ka that he never lost his belief in that his guiding principles could take him to the summit of?
(a) Success.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Death.

3. What is Ka's name an abbreviation of?
(a) Sunay Zaim.
(b) Orhan Bey.
(c) Kerim Alakusoglu.
(d) Bey Fazil.

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

5. What is the name of the owner of the Border City Gazette?
(a) Turgut Bey.
(b) Orhan Bey.
(c) Serdar Bey.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ka watch after making love to Ipek for the first time?

2. What is the name of Ka's friend who visits Kars four years after him, just after he has died?

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

4. What is the name of Ipek's younger sister?

5. What is the name of the poem Ka writes after asking Ipek repeatedly to go to bed with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Muhtar explain how he came to learn the teachings of the Kurdish Sheikh Saadettin Efendi?

2. What reason does Ka tell his fellow seatmate for why he is going to Kars during the bus ride there?

3. What is the nature of Funda Esers' skit called "My Fatherland or My Headscarf?

4. How does Sunay describe Necip to Ka after questioning him for kissing his dead body at the morgue?

5. What do the police want Ka to do when they take him into the station in regards to the Director of Education's death?

6. What is the nature of the favor Muhtar asks of Ka in regards to his ex-wife?

7. How does Necip describe his short science fiction story to Ka?

8. What do Ka and Ipek discuss when they have their first meeting together at the New Life Pastry Shop?

9. How does Kadife react when Ka questions her about her feelings on suicide?

10. How does Kadife search Ka for a microphone when he meets with her in a storage room at a hotel?

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