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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Five Minutes," Leila recalls gaining what kind of family member at the age of 7?
2. What position did Haroun hold within the historic city of Van?
3. In the chapter entitled "Three Minutes," what flavor does Leila remember three minutes after her heart has stopped that takes her back to September of 1967?
4. What name did Leila use when referring to her father Haroun?
5. How many miscarriages had Binnaz experienced prior to Leila's arrival?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the structure of the novel explained within the chapter in Part One entitled "One Minute"?
2. How did Jameelah come to feel so alienated by her family that she began to spend more time on the streets?
3. Name and discuss one theme presented within the epigraph of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds
4. What does the braided bracelet symbolize in the chapter entitled "Seven Minutes"?
5. Who was Tarkan?
6. In what way does Bitter Ma exact revenge on the client who chastises her for the picture of Sultan Abdulaziz hanging in the brothel?
7. How did Leila first meet Nalan?
8. What does the red belt symbolize within the chapter entitled "Six Minutes"?
9. In what way is the theme of courage depicted within the chapter entitled "Three Minutes"?
10. What major conflict did Jameelah have with her family after the death of her mother?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Shafak’s messages about guilt and responsibility within 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by Shafak in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Shafak’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Shafak’s novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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