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

Short Answer Questions

1. What season was the hardest for Kiki on the farm?

2. What was one reason Osman's carpet shop failed?

3. What do the doctors tell Monika that Steffi needs to do to get better?

4. How did Steffi tell Kiki she could find them again if she wanted to join them traveling?

5. What is Monika's job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kiki still stay in touch with her friend Pat after all the years they have known each other?

2. What does Monika feel like she has to make amends for with Julian in their relationship?

3. Why does Kiki sell her last rug that Osman has given her?

4. What is the main cause of the awful fights and tensions between Steffi and Bruno?

5. What does Dieter come across in the museum at the Met in New York City that he recognizes from years earlier?

6. What does Dieter's visit to the Met in New York City cause him to reminisce about from his time in Turkey?

7. How do Kiki and Osman's family treat the three Germans who stop at the farm in 1977?

8. Why does Monika have to make a hasty trip to Germany in Chapter 7?

9. What is Steffi's role as she travels around Turkey buying artifacts with Dieter and Bruno?

10. How did Kiki feel about working on Osman's family's farm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing Reyna's changing attitudes towards Boyd and his friends' cigarette-smuggling scheme, from the time when Boyd first tells her about it (28) to when she has a last minute change of heart about driving the car for them on one of their runs (52). What are some of Reyna's main considerations for going along with, and then rejecting, the scheme?

Essay Topic 2

Bruno, Dieter, and Steffi have an uneasy and tense partnership as they travel through Turkey on their smuggling escapades. Although their alliance is strained primarily by infidelity and a love triangle, write an essay analyzing some of the underlying character traits Bruno, Dieter, and Steffi exhibit that also contribute to their discord.

Essay Topic 3

What are the differences between what Kiki tells Reyna about why her marriage to Osman fell apart and the full story of what really happened between Kiki and Osman? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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