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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was NOT an event that occurred during the Turkish police's raid on the campus of Istanbul University?
(a) 30 students were arrested.
(b) 1 student was murdered.
(c) 30 students were murdered.
(d) 50 students were severely beaten.

2. How many years after Leila's departure from Van did Sinan wait before following her to Istanbul?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 8.

3. How did the soldiers escape from the attack launched by protesters in Istanbul?
(a) They flew off in airplanes.
(b) They shot their way out of the city.
(c) They held a government official hostage.
(d) They dove into the sea.

4. In what year did Leila spend her final night on earth?
(a) 1990.
(b) 2006.
(c) 1987.
(d) 2002.

5. At what type of establishment did Zaynab122 work when she and Leila met?
(a) A chip shop.
(b) A brothel.
(c) A jazz club.
(d) A medical clinic.

6. Nalan recalls in the chapter called "The Plan" that Leila had carried what item of D/Ali's everywhere she went after his death?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A Zippo lighter.
(c) A comb.
(d) A bracelet.

7. The vendor portrayed in the chapter entitled "The Silver Mercedes" spies how many figurines on the dashboard of the murderers' Mercedes?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

8. What color sequined dress did Bitter Ma tell Leila to wear to the Intercontinental Hotel on the night of her death?
(a) Silver.
(b) Gold.
(c) Red.
(d) Purple.

9. In the chapter entitled "Nine Minutes," Leila remembers D/Ali and has a memory of all but which of the following flavors?
(a) Cherry paste.
(b) Hazelnut praline.
(c) Caramel.
(d) Cardamom.

10. Who paid the majority of the veterinary bill for the animal Humeyra and Leila saved together on the night they met?
(a) Leila.
(b) Sinan.
(c) Nalan.
(d) Humeyra.

11. Soldiers affiliated with which country came to Istanbul in 1968?
(a) Germany.
(b) Iran.
(c) Afghanistan.
(d) The United States.

12. In the chapter entitled "The View from Above," the reader discovers that the recent murders of sex workers were all connected to the man Leila had met at what location the night of her death?
(a) The Bosphorous Bridge.
(b) The Intercontinental Hotel.
(c) Nalan's apartment.
(d) Leila's apartment.

13. With what sensory detail does Elif Shafak begin the chapter "Eight Minutes" within Part One?
(a) The taste of lemon and sugar.
(b) The smell of sulphuric acid.
(c) The sound of howling dogs.
(d) The smell of baklava.

14. Leila's murder had apparently been preceded within the month by how many similar murders involving the same car?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

15. Which character did Leila see when she looked into the mirror on her wedding day?
(a) Binnaz.
(b) D/Ali.
(c) Her younger self.
(d) Her elderly self.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Zaynab's qualities made her different from the rest of her family?

2. The wall of Leila's apartment is covered in paintings done by which artist?

3. Bitter Ma launched a deep cleaning of the brothel in anticipation of how many soldiers arriving in Istanbul?

4. In what make of car were the two men riding when they stopped to talk to Leila on the evening of her death?

5. The chapter entitled "The Silver Mercedes" portrays how many men having been involved with Leila's murder?

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