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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 is the name of the hotel that Ka stays at in his hometown?

2. Who does Ka realize now occupies a former tailor shop that was once a mansion in town?

3. What prevents the horse and carriage taking Kadife and Turgut to a meeting with Blue from leaving right away?

4. What kind of nationalists does Ka continue to tell Blue he needs joint support of along with the ex-Communists?

5. How many classrooms is Ka taken into to identify the Director of Education's killer at a veterinary school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

5. What happens at the end of Sunay's first play at the National Theatre?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the role of drinking in the book, notably as it is used as a coping mechanism. How does Ka's use of alcohol to forget his problems differ from Funda's, who uses it to manipulate others?

Essay Topic 3

True to the book's name, the substance of snow is used throughout the book to evoke memories, inspire poetry and note individualism in nature.

Part 1.) What symbolic meaning does Ka have for snow in regards to his childhood?

Part 2.) What might the author hope for snow to represent in terms of character development in the book?

Part 3.) What is telling about Ka's research of snowflakes and comparing their individuality to people?

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