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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. Which of the five friends has the most fiery temper?
(a) Nalan.
(b) Zaynab122.
(c) Sinan.
(d) Humeyra.

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

3. The medical examiner is fascinated with research suggesting that how many genes remain alive in the body for some time after physical death?
(a) 500.
(b) 250.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 1 million.

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

5. The silver Mercedes carrying Leila's murderers pulls up to what kind of establishment in the chapter called "The Silver Mercedes"?
(a) A sausage vendor.
(b) A magazine vendor.
(c) A sandwich vendor.
(d) An ice cream vendor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What object does Nalan throw from the balcony in response to a man's obscene comment?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

5. In what way does Elif Shafak use a sensory detail as an instance of foreshadowing in the chapter entitled "Eight Minutes"?

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

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

8. Is the young man featured in the chapter called "The View from Above" right or wrong to accuse his father of murder?

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

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

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