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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 does everyone have to line up to do once the document is drafted at Blue's secret meeting at Hotel Asia?
2. Who does Z Demirkol tell Ka has been Blue's mistress for years?
3. How long does Kadife serve in prison for killing Sunay?
4. Who decides that something bad is going to happen to Kadife and wishes to stop her from performing in Sunay's play?
5. What newspaper does Muhtar tell Ka wrote an unfavorable article about him?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Blue's prison cell described when Ka visits with him on Sunay's orders?
2. How does Orhan remember the first time he met Ipek in Kars?
3. Why does Ipek decide not to go with Ka to Germany?
4. What does Sunay tell Ka he will have to convince both Blue and Kadife to agree for Kadife to do when an officer takes Ka to see Sunay?
5. How does Fazil describe his fantasies of Kadife to Ka when they go to a tea house?
6. What does Z Demirkol reveal to Ka regarding Ipek after grabbing him in the street?
7. What does Ka do to find information on Blue after Kadife and Ipek ask him to because Blue disappeared after his rally at Hotel Asia?
8. What is the nature of the people's descriptions of Ka according to those Orhan meets with on his visit to Kars?
9. What is the nature of Ka and Muhtar's meeting at a tea house in "A Godless man in Kars, the Fear of Being Shot"?
10. What happens to Ka when he leaves a café after writing the poem "Jealous"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the portrayal of love in the book, noting the differences between Ka's portrayal and Fazil's.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's inclusion of social commentary in the book to show the tension and turmoil in Kars. What is the reader able to feel in relation to the high school students, the unemployed, and the other activists whose protests were examined in the book?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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