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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What number does Kameel provide to the five friends after they are escorted off hospital property?
(a) The phone number of Leila's family in Van.
(b) The number of stab wounds she sustained.
(c) The number of Leila's grave.
(d) The number of blows she sustained to her head.

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

4. What color was the car driven by the two men who picked up Leila shortly after she left the Intercontinental Hotel?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Silver.

5. In what month of 1968 did a group of soldiers from a particular country arrive in Istanbul?
(a) July.
(b) September.
(c) March.
(d) January.

6. Which character waits outside of Leila's apartment building in the chapter entitled "This Manic Old City"?
(a) Nalan.
(b) Humeyra.
(c) Binnaz.
(d) Charlie Chaplin.

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

8. The chapter "Eight Minutes" recounts a memory associated with March of what year?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1966.

9. Bitter Ma launched a deep cleaning of the brothel in anticipation of how many soldiers arriving in Istanbul?
(a) Scores.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Thousands.
(d) 50.

10. In what neighborhood did Leila live at the time of her murder?
(a) Lera.
(b) Pera.
(c) Mara.
(d) Kilyo.

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

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

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

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

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) BMW.
(b) Volkswagen.
(c) Mercedes.
(d) Volvo.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter entitled "Sabotage" focuses on which character, now in his early forties?

2. After the five friends' encounter with Kameel, which of them excuses themselves, wanting to be alone for a while?

3. Which of the five friends has the most fiery temper?

4. To what aspect of Zaynab's persona was her permanent and self-assigned nickname Zaynab122 connected?

5. The medical examiner provides a window of how many hours in relation to the time of Leila's death?

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