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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What number marks Leila's grave at the Cemetery for the Companionless?
(a) 3489.
(b) 9845.
(c) 284.
(d) 7302.

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

3. The figurines on the dashboard of the silver Mercedes are created to look like what entities?
(a) Goddesses.
(b) Demons.
(c) Angels.
(d) Devils.

4. Which of Leila's five friends believes that there two kinds of families?
(a) Zaynab122.
(b) Sinan.
(c) Humeyra.
(d) Nalan.

5. In the chapter entitled "Ten Minutes Twenty Seconds," Leila remembers which type of sensory input associated with a wedding cake?
(a) Taste.
(b) Sight.
(c) Smell.
(d) Touch.

6. In the chapter entitled "Remaining Eight Seconds," it is revealed that Leila's very last memory involved which of the five senses?
(a) Smell.
(b) Taste.
(c) Touch.
(d) Sight.

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

8. What part of Leila's body was permanently scarred as a result of being attacked by "the man all the prostitutes tried to avoid" (119)?
(a) Her back.
(b) Her arm.
(c) Her face.
(d) Her thigh.

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

10. The memory of what taste is associated with the chapter called "Ten Minutes Thirty Seconds"?
(a) Single malt whiskey.
(b) Cardamom.
(c) Lemon.
(d) Goat stew.

11. One of Leila's murderers turns out to be a man "who had been" what "his entire life" (207)?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Celibate.
(c) Psychotic.
(d) Bullied.

12. What was Leila's cause of death determined to be?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Blunt force trauma.
(c) Suffocation.
(d) Strangulation.

13. After the five friends' encounter with Kameel, which of them excuses themselves, wanting to be alone for a while?
(a) Nalan.
(b) Sinan.
(c) Humeyra.
(d) Zaynab122.

14. Which character was killed at the protests portrayed in "Ten Minutes Twenty Seconds"?
(a) Nalan.
(b) Leila.
(c) D/Ali.
(d) Humeyra.

15. In what make of car were the two men riding when they stopped to talk to Leila on the evening of her death?
(a) Volvo.
(b) Mercedes.
(c) BMW.
(d) Volkswagen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what neighborhood did Leila live at the time of her murder?

2. Which character waits outside of Leila's apartment building in the chapter entitled "This Manic Old City"?

3. How many scars did D/Ali show to Leila when he was refuting her argument about their pasts?

4. In what month did Leila live her last night on earth?

5. The vendor portrayed in the chapter entitled "The Silver Mercedes" spies how many figurines on the dashboard of the murderers' Mercedes?

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