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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What political party did Ipek's father once belong to?
(a) Communist.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Islamist.
(d) Republican.

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

4. 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) E.E. Cummings.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Robert Frost.

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

6. Who does Funda's husband tell the audience has just died before opening fire on the audience at the National Theater?
(a) The director of the Institute of Education.
(b) The mayor of Kars.
(c) The police chief.
(d) The President of Turkey.

7. Where does Sunay's Communist accomplice and his two thugs go, and then tie up the manager for not letting them inside?
(a) The stationary store.
(b) The teahouse.
(c) The National Theatre.
(d) The telephone office.

8. What will Ipek not do with Ka when she first comes to visit his room because her father is in the same building?
(a) Marry him.
(b) Talk to him.
(c) Make love to him.
(d) Kiss him.

9. What is Ka consumed by after being taken into the police station for the first time in the book?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Sadness.

10. What is the name of the café Ka stops at to get directions, but stops to listen to a sheik?
(a) The Snow Palace Cafe.
(b) The Teahouse.
(c) The Green Pastures Café.
(d) The New Life Pastry Shop.

11. Who does the director claim he is under orders from to ban local women from wearing their head scarves when questioned by a man in the book?
(a) Erzurum.
(b) Ankara.
(c) Tokart.
(d) Kars.

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

13. Which of the following words does Ka not use to describe Kars before reading his poem at the National Theater?
(a) Desolate.
(b) Sad.
(c) Poor.
(d) Beautiful.

14. Which of the following scenes is not on the posters and wall clippings at a tea house visited by Ka to write the poem "Hidden Symmetry"?
(a) Swiss mountains.
(b) A soccer schedule.
(c) A massacre.
(d) Cartoons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the courtyard that Ka is taken to while hidden under a tarp with Kadife surrounded by?

2. What is the name of the girl whose suicide is discussed at dinner by Hande?

3. What does a man do to Ka immediately after answering the door where Ka first goes to visit Blue?

4. What is the name of the hotel that Ka stays at in his hometown?

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

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