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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the intelligence agency that has been receiving threats on the director of the Institute of Education?
(a) PUR.
(b) SIT.
(c) MIT.
(d) RUF.

3. Where does Ka ask to stop to write down a poem when being driven to another facility to identify the Director of Education's killer?
(a) A teahouse.
(b) A cafe.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A veternarian clinic.

4. Which of the following things does not occur to the director after getting off an elevator with a man, according to a story Ka's college friend tells him after he leaves his first meeting with Blue?
(a) Commits suicide.
(b) Becomes obsessed with death.
(c) Becomes an atheist.
(d) Loses faith in God.

5. What is Ka's name an abbreviation of?
(a) Bey Fazil.
(b) Kerim Alakusoglu.
(c) Sunay Zaim.
(d) Orhan Bey.

6. What is the name of the Assistant Chief of Police in Ka's hometown?
(a) Kasim Bey.
(b) Turgut Bey.
(c) Orhan Bey.
(d) Ipek.

7. What is the name of the friend that Muhtar admits is the Westernized, self-possessed individual he always wanted to be?
(a) Fazil.
(b) Fahir.
(c) Necip.
(d) Orhan.

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) Make love to him.
(b) Kiss him.
(c) Marry him.
(d) Talk to him.

9. What is the name of the boy that is Necip's best friend and who goes to Ka?
(a) Fazil.
(b) Surab.
(c) Fahir.
(d) Rustem.

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

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

12. What is the name of the hotel that Ka stays at in his hometown?
(a) The Snow Palace Hotel.
(b) The Lake Garden Hotel.
(c) The Green Pastures Hotel.
(d) The Brown Hotel.

13. What does Sunay tell Ka that most people are not enough of to understand a modern poem?
(a) Smart.
(b) Sophisticated.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) Open.

14. What does Ka hurry to his hotel to do after seeing Necip for the first time in the book?
(a) Write.
(b) Eat.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Read.

15. 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) A soccer schedule.
(b) Cartoons.
(c) Swiss mountains.
(d) A massacre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prevents the horse and carriage taking Kadife and Turgut to a meeting with Blue from leaving right away?

2. What does Muhtar say he made the mistake of putting pressure on his wife about that may have caused their divorce?

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

4. Who does Ka realize now occupies a former tailor shop that was once a mansion in town?

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

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