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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the bishop come from the pray with the imam in the narrative related in Chapter 7?
(a) Istanbul.
(b) Cephalonia.
(c) Rhodes.
(d) Izmir.

2. What word in Chapter 44 refers to an Oriental tobacco pipe with a long tube that draws smoke through water?
(a) Selamik.
(b) Kanun.
(c) Narghile.
(d) Kaval.

3. Why did Philothei give alms to a beggar in Chapter 8?
(a) To cure Ibrahim.
(b) To cure her mother.
(c) To cure her cat.
(d) To cure her father.

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

5. 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) Nasreddin Hodja.
(b) Mustafa Kemal.
(c) Rustem Bey.
(d) Mihrimah Efendim.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ayse tell her daughters she would take them and sell them if they caught harlotry from Tamara in Chapter 22?

2. What is the town of Mustafa Kemal's birth?

3. What color stone does Philothei describe Ibrahim giving her in Chapter 4?

4. What does Philothei describe Ibrahim licking off her hand in Chapter 35?

5. Who did Philothei have say he had found Ibrahim in the rocks in Chapter 47?

Short Essay Questions

1. What actions did Polyxeni take in Chapter 12? Why?

2. How is the narrative related in Chapter 27?

3. How is the narrative in Chapter 12 related?

4. What did Rustem Bey ask Abdulhamid in Chapter 48? What did Abdulhamid respond?

5. Where is Mustafa Kemal described as being in Chapter 20? What year is it?

6. How did Karatavuk and Mehmetçik come to be called such? What are their real names?

7. What is the status of the war when Mustafa Kemal reaches Istanbul in Chapter 46?

8. What does Philothei describe Ibrahim doing that proved his love for her in Chapter 43?

9. Who was Mustafa Kemal in real life?

10. What event is described by Philothei in Chapter 29?

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