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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT mentioned within descriptions of the annual birthday parties Leila's five friends threw for her?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Decorations.
(c) Balloons.
(d) Cupcakes.

2. To what aspect of Zaynab's persona was her permanent and self-assigned nickname Zaynab122 connected?
(a) Her past surgeries.
(b) Her age.
(c) Her height.
(d) Her family.

3. The medical examiner provides a window of how many hours in relation to the time of Leila's death?
(a) 6.
(b) 24.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

4. To whom did D/Ali pay "a hefty sum" (154) in order to free Leila so that he could marry her?
(a) The magistrate.
(b) Haroun.
(c) Bitter Ma.
(d) Binnaz.

5. How many scars did D/Ali show to Leila when he was refuting her argument about their pasts?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

6. One of Leila's five friends believes that the two kinds of families are the blood type and what other type?
(a) Blended.
(b) Oil.
(c) Water.
(d) Sun.

7. In what country was Zaynab122 born, as depicted in the chapter entitled "Zaynab's Story"?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Iran.
(d) Lebanon.

8. 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 baklava.
(c) The smell of sulphuric acid.
(d) The sound of howling dogs.

9. In the chapter entitled "The Five," all five of Leila's friends arrive separately to the hospital courtyard just past what time?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Suppertime.
(c) The end of Ramadan.
(d) Noon.

10. The sisters of D/Ali incessantly called him after his wedding to tell him that their mother was taking what action?
(a) Praying.
(b) Crying.
(c) Celebrating.
(d) Waiting for a grandchild.

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

12. What type of food is featured as part of Leila's final memory?
(a) Strawberry cake.
(b) Rum cake.
(c) Cinnamon cake.
(d) Chocolate cake.

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

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

15. It is revealed in the chapter entitled "Ten Minutes" that Humeyra made her living working at what type of establishment?
(a) A bookstore.
(b) A brothel.
(c) A pharmacy.
(d) A restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what type of establishment did Zaynab122 work when she and Leila met?

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

3. One of Leila's murderers turns out to be a man "who had been" what "his entire life" (207)?

4. The memory of what taste is associated with the chapter called "Ten Minutes Thirty Seconds"?

5. 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?

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