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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of fantasies has Ka tried to banish while making love to Ipek?
(a) Grotesque.
(b) Cartoon.
(c) Pornographic.
(d) Violent.

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

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

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

5. How many letters does Nacip give to Ka for him to deliver to the woman he loves?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

6. Who does Ipek bring Ka a letter from when she comes to tell him the director's condition has worsened?
(a) Kadife.
(b) Saadettin Cevher.
(c) Sunay Zaim.
(d) Ohan Bey.

7. 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) Tokart.
(b) Erzurum.
(c) Kars.
(d) Ankara.

8. Where does Sunay tell Ka that he and Funda disappeared to before gradually making their way back as performers?
(a) The Dead Sea.
(b) The Black Sea.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

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

10. How many hours does Ka sleep the night of the revolution at the theater?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

11. How does Ka die?
(a) He is bombed.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is stabbed,
(d) He is poisoned.

12. What is the name of Ka's friend whom he runs into after leaving his first meeting with Blue?
(a) Necip.
(b) Fahir.
(c) Rustem.
(d) Fazil.

13. What is the name of the beautiful divorcee that Ka runs into after leaving his hotel to meet with the Border City Gazette?
(a) Iris.
(b) Funda.
(c) Kadife.
(d) Ipek.

14. What is the name of the hotel that Turgut agrees to go to and meet Blue?
(a) Snake Glen Hotel.
(b) Hotel Asia.
(c) Snow Palace Hotel.
(d) Hotel Brown.

15. 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) Going to the library.
(d) Stopping at the grocery store.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What is Ka's name an abbreviation of?

3. What is the name of the poem Ka writes after asking Ipek repeatedly to go to bed with him?

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

5. What does Funda's husband say before running offstage after he and his group opened fire on the National Theater audience?

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