View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Levon the Armenian also often known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 28?

2. Who is said to live in the trunk of a tree with a donkey and four children in Chapter 22?

3. How old is Philothei in her narrative in Chapter 21?

4. What title is given to Ibrahim in Chapter 1?

5. In what year was Philothei born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is related in the very brief Chapter 18? Who relates this narrative?

2. How is the narrative style of Chapter 2 established?

3. What is described in the brief narrative of Chapter 35?

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

5. Who is the subject of Chapter 13? How is his narrative related?

6. From what narrative perspective is Chapter 1 related? How is this established?

7. How is Chapter 5 narrated? In what tense is it related?

8. How is the narrative in Chapter 12 related?

9. Who was Mustafa Kemal in real life?

10. What is related in the brief narrative of Chapter 21? Who narrates the chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the characters of Tamara and Leyla in the novel. How are these women similar? How are they different? What are their objectives? What obstacles do they face?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the character of Rustem Bey in Birds Without Wings. What is Rustem Bey's position in Eskibahçe? What are his religious beliefs? How does this character evolve in the course of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the different birds that are highlighted in Birds Without Wings. What characters are associated with birds and what kind of birds are they associated with? What do birds represent on the whole? What do the varieties of birds mean?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 640 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample