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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is Leyla's cat described as?
(a) Orange.
(b) Gray.
(c) Calico.
(d) White.

2. What country has Enver Pasha decided to attack in Chapter 55?
(a) Germany.
(b) Russia.
(c) France.
(d) Great Britain.

3. In Chapter 2 the author tells a tale of a man who owned a buffalo with enormous horns. What was the man's name?
(a) Mustafa Kemal.
(b) Mihrimah Efendim.
(c) Rustem Bey.
(d) Nasreddin Hodja.

4. Who is said to live in the trunk of a tree with a donkey and four children in Chapter 22?
(a) Mihrimah Efendim.
(b) Ali the Snowbringer.
(c) Mohammad the Leech Gatherer.
(d) Rustem Bey.

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

6. After how many years is Rustem Bey told he must release the woman that he purchased if she chose freedom in Chapter 33?
(a) 5.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

7. Where did the imam come from to pray with the bishop in the narrator's story in Chapter 7?
(a) Fethiye.
(b) Istanbul.
(c) Cephalonia.
(d) Izmir.

8. In what kind of school did Mustafa Kemal convince his mother to enroll him in after his father's death?
(a) A Christian school.
(b) A Muslim school.
(c) A charter school.
(d) A military school.

9. What does Philothei describe putting in her brother's rice for revenge in Chapter 29?
(a) A worm.
(b) Salt.
(c) Sugar.
(d) A dead beetle.

10. What is referred to in Chapter 25 as the island that no one ventures to without falling in love?
(a) Izmir.
(b) Cephalonia.
(c) Cyprus.
(d) Rhodes.

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

12. What did women wear over their faces at the time of Philothei's birth?
(a) Nilufer.
(b) Fethiye.
(c) Carsafs.
(d) Ankara.

13. What are the people called who believe in the the twelve imams and that Mohammad passed on special knowledge to Ali?
(a) Izmir.
(b) Fethiye.
(c) Alevis.
(d) Ankara.

14. What did Mehmetçik give Karatavuk as a parting gift in Chapter 50?
(a) A four-leaf clover.
(b) A pocket watch.
(c) A ring.
(d) A bag of soil.

15. What is the title of Chapter 48?
(a) "Of Righteousness and Wrongdoing."
(b) "Of Reading and Writing."
(c) "Ibrahim Gives Philothei a Goldfinch."
(d) "Mustafa Kemal."

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the King of Montenegro declare war on the Ottoman Empire?

2. Polyxeni's mother was accused of poisoning and killing the family of a man named what?

3. In what year did the Ottoman state begin its Great War, according to the narrator in Chapter 42?

4. What are Karatavuk and Mehmetçik's real names?

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

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