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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Philothei born?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1912.

2. What causes the death of Mustafa Kemal’s father?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) A car accident.
(d) Brain aneurysm.

3. From where does the narrator say lewd thoughts and insomnia were blowing into the village from the southern wind when Philothei was born in Chapter 2?
(a) France.
(b) Asia.
(c) Germany.
(d) Arabia.

4. To what does Dosoula compare her spirit in the end of Chapter 5?
(a) A chrysalis.
(b) A teardrop.
(c) A tulip.
(d) A rosebush.

5. Who is Philothei's mother?
(a) Lydia.
(b) Nilufer.
(c) Polyxeni.
(d) Tamara.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Chapter 3 begin?

2. Who is Father Kristoforos's wife?

3. Where does the narrator describe Mustafa Kemal enrolling in a war college in Chapter 16?

4. Who was the village midwife when Philopthei was born?

5. Iskander says in Chapter 1 that he is a potter but is also renowned as a maker of what?

(see the answer key)

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