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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Which of Leila's five friends tells hospital staff that they had been closer to Leila than her family was?
(a) Humeyra.
(b) Jameelah.
(c) Sinan.
(d) Nalan.

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

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

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

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

11. 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 thigh.
(b) Her arm.
(c) Her back.
(d) Her face.

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

13. What object does Nalan throw from the balcony in response to a man's obscene comment?
(a) A radio.
(b) A pair of sunglasses.
(c) A potted plant.
(d) An ashtray.

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

15. 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 Intercontinental Hotel.
(b) Nalan's apartment.
(c) Leila's apartment.
(d) The Bosphorous Bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. At every possible opportunity, Leila and her five friends would gather for dinner and to engage in what activity together?

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

3. Which of Leila's five friends believes that there two kinds of families?

4. What was NOT an event that occurred during the Turkish police's raid on the campus of Istanbul University?

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

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