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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Ipek's family maid?
(a) Funda.
(b) Hande.
(c) Zahide.
(d) Teslime.

2. What is the name of the former Communist and writer who was onstage with Sunay during the play?
(a) Ferhat.
(b) Turgut Bey.
(c) Z Demirkol.
(d) Sunay Zaim.

3. Where has Ka just returned from reading poetry when he is killed?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Kars.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Frankfurt.

4. What is the name of the woman who performs "My Fatherland or My Head Scarf" in the book?
(a) Funda Eser.
(b) Kadife.
(c) Ipek.
(d) Fahir.

5. Where does Ka secretly meet Kadife at a hotel to discuss Blue?
(a) A bathroom.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) A bedroom.
(d) A storage room.

6. What is the name of the finished book of poetry that Ka's friend is searching for in his green notebook?
(a) Life.
(b) Ipek.
(c) Snow.
(d) Love.

7. What is the name of Ipek's younger sister?
(a) Kadife.
(b) Hicran.
(c) Funda.
(d) Hande.

8. Which of the following things is not mentioned as being one of Ka's daily habits while living in Germany?
(a) Stopping at the cafe.
(b) Robbing stores.
(c) Stopping at the grocery store.
(d) Going to the library.

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

10. Where does Ka head to after leaving his meeting with Ipek when the Director of Education is killed?
(a) The National Theatre.
(b) The headquarters of the Prosperity Party.
(c) The stationary store.
(d) Hotel Asia.

11. What does Ka become at first during his meeting with Ipek before composing himself?
(a) Tongue tied.
(b) Silly.
(c) Angry.
(d) Happy.

12. What does Ka watch after making love to Ipek for the first time?
(a) The snow.
(b) The rain.
(c) TV.
(d) Her sleeping.

13. What is the name of the poem Ka writes after asking Ipek repeatedly to go to bed with him?
(a) "The Night of the Revolution".
(b) "Snow".
(c) "The Staircase".
(d) "The Chocolate Box".

14. What is the name of Ka's friend who visits Kars four years after him, just after he has died?
(a) Turgut Bey.
(b) Sunay Zaim.
(c) Hicran.
(d) Orhan Bey.

15. What poet does Ka tell Sunay that he and Muhtar both read when he says he must have grown up on Western films?
(a) Boudelaire.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) E.E. Cummings.
(d) Robert Frost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the beautiful divorcee that Ka runs into after leaving his hotel to meet with the Border City Gazette?

2. What is the name of the first poem that Ka writes in the book?

3. What is the name of the boy that is Necip's best friend and who goes to Ka?

4. What is the name of the Assistant Chief of Police in Ka's hometown?

5. Who does Necip proclaim his love for when he comes up to Ka for the second time in the book?

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