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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ali the Snowbringer's wife?
(a) Safiye.
(b) Polyxeni.
(c) Philothei.
(d) Hasseki.

2. What is described as the only Ottoman battleship in Chapter 46?
(a) The Ankara.
(b) The Izmir.
(c) The Fethiye.
(d) The Hamidiye.

3. Who is Ayse's oldest daughter?
(a) Lydia.
(b) Philothei.
(c) Hasseki.
(d) Polyxeni.

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

5. What is the name of Ibrahim's dog?
(a) Safiye.
(b) Kopek.
(c) Hasseki.
(d) Izmir.

6. What is the town of Mustafa Kemal's birth?
(a) Ankara.
(b) Salonika.
(c) Cyprus.
(d) Cephalonia.

7. How many beads are described on Rustem Bey's tespih in Chapter 32?
(a) 33.
(b) 36.
(c) 32.
(d) 29.

8. What color beads did Philothei's father say the women were hanging about the home after she was born in Chapter 2?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Green.

9. Who was the sergeant that showed up in Eskibahçe in Chapter 50?
(a) Sergeant Hasseki.
(b) Sergeant Osman.
(c) Sergeant Hodja.
(d) Sergeant Kristoforos.

10. In what year does Chapter 3 begin?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1901.

11. What does "Kemal" mean?
(a) Fierce.
(b) Friend of God.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Perfection.

12. Polyxeni's mother was accused of poisoning and killing the family of a man named what?
(a) Mustafa Kemal.
(b) Rustem Bey.
(c) Nasreddin Hodja.
(d) Leonidas Efendi.

13. What German commander in Chapter 60 wants to replace Turkish generals with Germans?
(a) Otto Liman von Sanders.
(b) Gustav von Kessel.
(c) Maximilian von Prittwitz.
(d) Otto Kreß von Kressenstein.

14. Who is Father Kristoforos's wife?
(a) Mihrimah.
(b) Lydia.
(c) Karatavuk.
(d) Drosoula.

15. When did the King of Montenegro declare war on the Ottoman Empire?
(a) September 15, 1917.
(b) March 15, 1902.
(c) May 23, 1915.
(d) October 8, 1912.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Father Kristoforos converse with in his dream in Chapter 36?

2. What was Rustem Bey going to Istanbul to seek in Chapter 25?

3. What term in Chapter 45 refers to secret societies formed to bring about the reunification of Greece?

4. What was Ibrahim's father called, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

5. How old was Mustafa Kemal in 1898?

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