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

2. 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.

3. Which of Leila's five friends is the only person in the group devoted to religion?
(a) Zaynab122.
(b) Humeyra.
(c) Nalan.
(d) Sinan.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Soldiers affiliated with which country came to Istanbul in 1968?

2. What color sequined dress did Bitter Ma tell Leila to wear to the Intercontinental Hotel on the night of her death?

3. In what make of car were the two men riding when they stopped to talk to Leila on the evening of her death?

4. In the chapter entitled "Remaining Eight Seconds," it is revealed that Leila's very last memory involved which of the five senses?

5. One of Leila's five friends believes that the two kinds of families are the blood type and what other type?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. From which character's perspective is the chapter entitled "This Manic Old City" written?

4. What new information about the recent murders of sex workers does the reader learn in the chapter entitled "The Apartment"?

5. How did Leila react to D/Ali's wedding proposal, as described in the chapter entitled "Ten Minutes"?

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

7. What sight causes Humeyra to smile "for the first time in hours" (194) in the chapter entitled "The Apartment"?

8. What was the ultimate fate of Leila's husband D/Ali?

9. 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"?

10. Which joyous occasion in Leila's life is portrayed within the memories that surface ten minutes and 20 seconds after her heart stops?

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