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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of the two men in the old Turkish story that Blue tells Ka about during their first meeting?
(a) Rustem and Suhrab.
(b) Ipek and Ka.
(c) Funda and Sunay.
(d) Kasim and Orhan.

2. What is the name of a liberal German paper that ran articles for Blue?
(a) The Border City Gazette.
(b) The Frankfurter Rundschau.
(c) The London Times.
(d) The Turkish Examiner.

3. What does the sheik tell Ka is the first thing he needs to learn when they first talk in a café?
(a) Love.
(b) Humility.
(c) Calm.
(d) Forgiveness.

4. What is the name of the owner of the Border City Gazette?
(a) Serdar Bey.
(b) Orhan Bey.
(c) Blue.
(d) Turgut Bey.

5. What is the name of Funda's husband?
(a) Rustem.
(b) Blue.
(c) Surab.
(d) Sunay Zaim.

6. Who does Ka realize now occupies a former tailor shop that was once a mansion in town?
(a) Sunay Zaim.
(b) Fahir.
(c) Turgut Bey.
(d) Blue.

7. What is the name of the first poem that Ka writes in the book?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) The Chocolate Box.
(c) Dog.
(d) Snow.

8. What village is the man from who travels to Kars specifically to target the director of the Institute of Education?
(a) Ankara.
(b) Kars.
(c) Tokat.
(d) Istanbul.

9. Which of the following tribes is not mentioned to have influenced the Kars region according to Ka?
(a) Circassians.
(b) Georgians.
(c) French.
(d) Kurds.

10. What does Necip tell Ka he keeps seeing the same of over and over when he explains why he doesn't look down the road?
(a) Colors.
(b) Jewels.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Landscapes.

11. What does Turgut advise Ka to increase his belief in to save himself from being punished by Islamists?
(a) Islam.
(b) Freedom.
(c) God.
(d) His country.

12. What kind of store does Ka go to and photocopy Necip's letters to Kadife?
(a) Hotel Asia.
(b) A teahouse.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) A stationary store.

13. What is the name of the poem Ka writes after Ipek tells him that she wants to make love to him for the first time?
(a) "Privations and Difficulties".
(b) "Dog".
(c) "Hidden Symmetry".
(d) "The Night of the Revolution".

14. What does Muhtar say he made the mistake of putting pressure on his wife about that may have caused their divorce?
(a) For her to have children.
(b) For her to lose weight.
(c) For her to go to church.
(d) For her to wear a head scarf.

15. What is the name of the soap opera that Turgut and Ipek watch together?
(a) Jane.
(b) Sue.
(c) Marianna.
(d) Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ka consumed by after being taken into the police station for the first time in the book?

2. How many classrooms is Ka taken into to identify the Director of Education's killer at a veterinary school?

3. How many hours does Ka sleep the night of the revolution at the theater?

4. What does Ka watch after making love to Ipek for the first time?

5. What is the name of the person that Ka and Muhtar claim is the happiest political exile?

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