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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Ipek not do with Ka when she first comes to visit his room because her father is in the same building?

2. What political party did Ipek's father once belong to?

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

4. Where does Sunay tell Ka that he and Funda disappeared to before gradually making their way back as performers?

5. What is the name of the owner of the Border City Gazette?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of Ka and Fazil's conversation when Fazil approaches him in the library?

2. What is the nature of Ka's conversation with the sheikh when he first sees him at the Green Pastures café?

3. Why is the bus driver reluctant to let Ka on the bus at the beginning of the book?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the role of control in the book, paying close attention to its impact in the political and theatrical groups in the book. What methods did characters like Sunay Zaim and Z Dimerkol use to gain control over others?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the portrayal of religion in the book and note the importance it has in the lives of the book's characters. In what way does the author offer a skewed view of religion in the book based on the intermixing images of violence and good related to it?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the impact of Orhan's investigation of Ka, noting what information we were able to learn about Ka's nature. What is telling about the nature of change and consequences of actions based on the information we learn about Ka's legacy in Kars after his death?

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