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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 soap opera that Turgut and Ipek watch together?
(a) Marianna.
(b) Carolina.
(c) Sue.
(d) Jane.

2. What kind of store does Ka go to and photocopy Necip's letters to Kadife?
(a) Hotel Asia.
(b) A grocery store.
(c) A stationary store.
(d) A teahouse.

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

4. Where does Sunay's Communist accomplice and his two thugs go, and then tie up the manager for not letting them inside?
(a) The telephone office.
(b) The National Theatre.
(c) The stationary store.
(d) The teahouse.

5. What is the name of Funda's husband?
(a) Surab.
(b) Sunay Zaim.
(c) Blue.
(d) Rustem.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Ipek's family maid?

3. What is the name of the poem Ka writes after Ipek tells him that she wants to make love to him for the first time?

4. Who do Ka and Ipek realize they have both recently lost that seems to break the ice between them?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ka do with the letters he promised Necip that he would give to Kadife in a stationary store?

3. What is the nature of Ka's first meeting with Serdar Bey in the book?

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

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

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

7. What is the nature of Orhan Bey's visit to Kars?

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

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

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

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