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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the last name of the morgue orderly named Kameel?
(a) Madelo.
(b) Sumi.
(c) Effendi.
(d) Feitz.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who escorts the five friends off the hospital property once they are denied access to Leila's body?

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

4. What number does Kameel provide to the five friends after they are escorted off hospital property?

5. What number marks Leila's grave at the Cemetery for the Companionless?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the findings of the medical examiner who inspects Leila's body at the morgue.

2. In the chapter entitled "The View from Above," who is the young man accusing his father of being involved with the murders of sex workers?

3. How did Leila meet D/Ali and what part of the prologue is the reader meant to recall during the description of their meeting in "Nine Minutes"?

4. Who becomes frustrated with Zaynab122 in the chapter entitled "Normal Female Citizens" and why?

5. How does the instance of foreshadowing included at the start of Part One: "Eight Minutes" become clear by the end of the chapter?

6. What tragic occasion is portrayed within Leila's consciousness in the chapter entitled "Ten Minutes 20 Seconds"?

7. How does Sinan's grief surrounding Leila's death differ from the grief of Leila's other four friends, as depicted in the chapter entitled "Grief"?

8. How did Leila meet Humeyra, as depicted within the chapter entitled "Ten Minutes"?

9. How do Leila's five friends finally gain access to information about the whereabouts of Leila's body?

10. For what reason did Leila go to the Intercontinental Hotel on her last night alive?

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