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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 81 - 90.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Tamara eventually taken for sanctuary in Chapter 23?
(a) A halfway house.
(b) A mosque.
(c) A brothel.
(d) A nunnery.

2. What is the title of Chapter 51?
(a) "The Sadness of Rustem Bey."
(b) "Ibrahim Gives Philothei a Goldfinch."
(c) "Of Reading and Writing."
(d) "Mustafa Kemal."

3. Who did Mustafa Kemal discover was planning to assassinate him in Chapter 30?
(a) Enver Pasha.
(b) Mihrimah Efendim.
(c) Abdulhamid Hodja.
(d) Leonidas Efendi.

4. Who makes a speech arguing that Eskibahçe was once Greece and should be Greece again in Chapter 88?
(a) Rustem Bey.
(b) Nasreddin Hodja.
(c) Constantinos Mermingas.
(d) Leonidas.

5. Who is King Alexander's grandfather by whom he is buried in Chapter 81?
(a) King Christopher.
(b) King George.
(c) King Constantin.
(d) King Peter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the cleaning lady that has read ominous portents in the coffee grounds and foresees King Alexander's death in Chapter 81?

2. Who was the sergeant that showed up in Eskibahçe in Chapter 50?

3. Who narrates Chapter 87?

4. For how long has Granitola been in Eskibahçe when he must leave in Chapter 83?

5. From the beginning of the Ottoman's Great War, the narrator states in Chapter 42 that the country would be sloughing off its sons continuously until what year?

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