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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. Where does Ka head to after leaving his meeting with Ipek when the Director of Education is killed?
(a) The National Theatre.
(b) The headquarters of the Prosperity Party.
(c) The stationary store.
(d) Hotel Asia.

2. What is the name of the town in Turkey that Ka is from?
(a) Kars.
(b) Kia.
(c) Erzurum.
(d) Istanbul.

3. What is the name of the woman who performs "My Fatherland or My Head Scarf" in the book?
(a) Ipek.
(b) Kadife.
(c) Funda Eser.
(d) Fahir.

4. What does Ka watch after making love to Ipek for the first time?
(a) The rain.
(b) Her sleeping.
(c) The snow.
(d) TV.

5. Who does Ka tell Blue he is spying for during their first meeting?
(a) The Republicans.
(b) The South Door.
(c) The Progressives.
(d) The Islamists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Assistant Chief of Police in Ka's hometown?

2. What does Ka realize has happened to Muhtar but not to him after they are taken in by police for questioning?

3. What does Sunay tell Ka that he never lost his belief in that his guiding principles could take him to the summit of?

4. What is the name of the friend that Muhtar admits is the Westernized, self-possessed individual he always wanted to be?

5. How many letters does Nacip give to Ka for him to deliver to the woman he loves?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the director described after he meets a man in an elevator in a story that Necip tells Ka?

2. What do Z Dimerkol and two Turkish militants do to Ka after he leaves the National Theater after his speech?

3. What is the nature of Hande's questions to Ka regarding his poetry?

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

5. What is the nature of Ipek and Ka's conversation when she comes to tell him the director's condition has worsened?

6. How is the first time that Ka and Ipek make love described?

7. What happens when Ka tells the announcer that he finds Kars very beautiful, very poor and very sad during his speech at the National Theatre?

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

9. How is Blue described the first time he is seen in the book?

10. How is Sunay and Funda's seventies political theater background described in the book?

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